Explore the Impact of Artificial Intelligence Ethics on Workplaces – UK

Deadline: 21-Sep-21

The UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is seeking applications for its Explore the Impact of Artificial Intelligence Ethics on Workplaces.

Your work must be early research and involve:

• scoping, asking initial questions and testing assumptions
• forming new and inclusive partnerships and networks
• defining future larger research plans.

Funding Information

The full economic cost of your project can be up to £62,500. AHRC will fund 80% of the full economic cost.

What are they looking for?

• AHRC is looking to fund early research, sometimes called ‘pump-priming’. They will fund collaborative projects that undertake preliminary research and scoping on the impact of AI ethics frameworks on workplace culture.
• These projects should develop partnerships or networks to test assumptions and identify future research questions in this field.
• Projects should lay the groundwork for longer-term, in-depth ethnographic studies of different workplaces. However, alternative methodologies will be considered that yield the outputs and outcomes required.
• The subsequent research is intended to help bridge the gap between principle, process and practice within AI ethics and sectors developing or using AI and data-driven technologies.
• Project partners should be working together for the first time or in a new, more extensive or more collaborative capacity than previously.
• Outputs should aim to frame research questions and challenges to inform future humanities-led investment in responsible AI.

Eligibility Criteria

• You can apply if you are a principal investigator at an eligible research organisation. This is:
  • any UK higher education institution that receives grant funding from one of the UK higher education funding bodies
  • a UKRI-recognised research institute or organisation.
• Proposals must be submitted by an eligible research organisation.
• Project teams should include collaborating partners from at least one non-academic organisation that is already developing or using AI as part of their regular business activity, for example algorithmic decision-making technology. This partner can be a:
  • project
  • consortium
  • business
  • third sector organisation
  • government body.

For more information, visit https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/explore-the-impact-of-artificial-intelligence-ethics-on-workplaces/