SSHRC and Sloan Foundation Metascience and AI postdoctoral fellowship
Information and Communication Technology
Deadlines
Academic Unit: Inquire with unit
Memorial Deadline: Monday 7th, April 2025
External Deadline: Thursday 10th, April 2025
Description
This is a postdoctoral fellowship program for grants of up to $250,000 USD to support early career researchers in the social sciences and humanities (with particular emphasis on philosophy, sociology of science, and metascience) who are interested in building a career in understanding the implications of AI for the science and research ecosystem.
AI (currently understood as a set of technologies including machine learning, deep learning, and foundation models) could accelerate scientific discovery, whether through narrow applications like DeepMind’s AlphaFold, or general applications such as advances in AI-enabled lab robotics, evidence synthesis, or statistical inference. There are many practical and technical challenges to solve before society has fully-fledged autonomous ‘AI scientists’. Nevertheless, it seems inevitable that over the coming years public and private R&D funders will make significant investments both to diffuse and adopt AI technologies, and to solve technical challenges, in the direction of a more heavily AI-mediated research.
Submissions are due no later than April 10, 2025, by 5:00 p.m. (eastern).
Canada-based applicants should apply directly to the Sloan Foundation. For more information, contact international@sshrc-crsh.gc.ca
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