Deadline: 21-Sep-21
The UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is seeking applications for its Ethics in Artificial Intelligence Research and Development.
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/including-ethics-in-artificial-intelligence-research-and-development/