*Postdoc Position* We are seeking a postdoc to manage a year long project on *Algorithmic Opacity and Fairness* working with Professor Jenna Burrell and Professor Deirdre Mulligan at the School of Information, UC-Berkeley. Artificial intelligence is raising new concerns around topics of longstanding interest to sociologists, law, and media scholars including social equality, civil rights, labor and automation, and the evolution of the news media. Complex, non-linear algorithms, and particularly machine learning algorithms, are increasingly being used in domains of socially consequential classification. The development of approaches or solutions to address these challenges are still nascent. At UC-Berkeley we are bringing together faculty and students from sociology, law, computer science and other relevant disciplines to explore and develop ideas and new research directions on this topic. There will be opportunities to dialogue about this topic and its many dimensions with researchers employed in the Bay Area’s tech industry. The project is funded by a grant from Google research. The postdoc hired for this position will provide intellectual leadership and will handle the logistics of managing an on-campus working group of faculty and students as well as organizing a speaker series for the 2017-2018 academic year (likely to be extended into fall 2018). You will dedicate 50% of your time to this effort and will have the freedom to pursue your own research the rest of the time. For details on qualifications and how to apply -- see the attached job announcement. For questions contact Professor Jenna Burrell at jburrell@berkeley.edu We are hoping to find someone to fill this position as soon as possible, ideally someone who can start early in this upcoming fall semester. Jenna Burrell Associate Professor School of Information UC-Berkeley