PhD position UCD UK | AI and Human Autonomy

Looking to hire a brilliant PhD candidate to work with me on an exciting new project on AI and Human Autonomy.

The position one of a cohort of 14 PhD studentships in UCD as part of a new multi-institutional interdisciplinary national centre for AI funded by Research Ireland. Studentships provide a stipend of €25,000 per year for four years (tax free) with additional funds available to support conference attendance and training activities and fees.

The project I am supervising along with David Coyle, UCD would suit people with a range of different backgrounds from cognitive science, psychology, philosophy, literature, social science, AI or computational lingustics etc...

The project theme is AI and Human Autonomy. We aim to examine how AI may affect human cognition and autonomy and uncover design features of GenAI applications that enhance independent human reasoning, deliberation and protect human agency. This project theme would suit people with a range of backgrounds.

Candidates interested in this theme may fill in this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdNkxqnr78-W_KjJkkXABE1QklNCNjItlQqic3ooSVCCZFxBQ/viewform