Connectionists: *deadline Jan 2* Postdoc opportunity in Cambridge (UK) to study Trust and Transparency of AI

[Adrian Weller]

Please forward to anyone who may have interest. *Application deadline is 
Jan 2.*

Postdoc position to study Trust and Transparency aspects of Artificial 
Intelligence
University of Cambridge, UK

The Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI; 
http://lcfi.ac.uk/) and the Machine Learning Group 
(http://mlg.eng.cam.ac.uk ) at the University of Cambridge invite 
applications for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the study of trust 
and transparency in Artificial Intelligence (AI). The appointment will 
be for 3 years.

CFI is a new, highly interdisciplinary research centre addressing the 
challenges and opportunities posed by artificial intelligence (AI). 
Funded by the Leverhulme Trust, CFI is based at the University of 
Cambridge, with partners in the University of Oxford, Imperial College 
London, and UC Berkeley, and close links with industry.

This is a new Research Associate post within CFI’s Trust and 
Transparency project, based in central Cambridge. The post-holder will 
be a member of both CFI, and the Machine Learning Group, run by Prof 
Zoubin Ghahramani, in the Department of Engineering. This project, led 
by Dr Adrian Weller and involving partners at Imperial College, aims to 
develop processes to ensure that AI systems are transparent, reliable 
and trustworthy.

Deadline for applications is 2 January 2017. Please see 
http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/12209/ for further details.

The University values diversity and is committed to equality of 
opportunity.

The University has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are 
eligible to live and work in the UK.

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Adrian Weller