University of Oxford Oxford Internet Institute Digital Ethics Lab Applications are invited for a three-year doctoral studentship on The Ethics of AI: Challenges and Opportunities Deadline 12:00pm GMT on Friday 19 January 2018 The studentship will commence in October 2018. Eligible candidates will need to qualify for UK or EU fee status and be ordinarily resident in the UK or EU. The successful candidate will investigate the ethical aspects, requirements, and desiderata underpinning the design and development of AI, and develop original and innovative research to foster value-based and ethically sound solutions to the problems posed by AI. The student will be supervised by Prof. Luciano Floridi and Dr Mariarosaria Taddeo, and will be a member of, and collaborate with, the OII’s Digital Ethics Lab (DELab) http://digitalethicslab.oii.ox.ac.uk/ <http://digitalethicslab.oii.ox.ac.uk/> The studentship is supported by funding donated by Google. For the application pack and further details on application process please see: https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/new-positions/ <https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/new-positions/> Best regards, Luciano Floridi ____________________________________________ Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information Director, Digital Ethics Lab http://digitalethicslab.oii.ox.ac.uk/ <http://digitalethicslab.oii.ox.ac.uk/> Oxford Internet Institute | University of Oxford Turing Fellow | Chair of the Data Ethics Group The Alan Turing Institute, London PA Ms Jessica Antonio | pa.floridi@oii.ox.ac.uk <mailto:pa.floridi@oii.ox.ac.uk> 1 St Giles, Oxford, OX1 3JS, UK Tel: +44 (0) 1865 287202 | @Floridi