Faculty positions at the University of California on AI, Inequality, and Society

Bin Yu writes:

The University of California, Berkeley seeks applicants for four tenure-track (Assistant Professor) positions and one tenured (Associate or Full Professor) position in the area of “AI, Inequality, and Society” (AIIS). The AIIS Cluster initiative brings together the Computer Science (CS) division of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) department, the departments of Sociology and Statistics, and the schools of Information and Law to address questions related to the myriad ways in which AI may reshape society and individual lives, possibly exacerbating existing inequalities and creating new ones while changing opportunity structures and participation by individuals and groups in society.

For more information about the positions, including required qualifications and application materials, go to: https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04498. The deadline to apply is September 16, 2024. For questions, please contact: AIIS_search@berkeley.edu.

Interesting to see this sort of overlap between sociology and statistics. I see that the law school is involved. Maybe the successful candidates could work with some law professor to design an AI that will come up with creative justifications for torture. Someone should be able to design an AI that could do it better than Berkeley’s existing law faculty—and for less money:

In all seriousness, this sounds like an interesting opportunity, and I assume you could spend an entire career at the University of California without having to talk with any overpaid stuffed shirts about trolley cars and ticking time bombs.

P.S. Yeah, yeah, I know, you could take any post about Columbia and append remarks about Dr. Oz, cheating on the U.S. News statistics, etc etc etc. For better or worse, institutions are often associated with their failures.