Research Community Development Grant: Summer Training Program to Expand the Al and Data Ethics Research Community

该奖项支持开发一个密集的跨学科暑期项目，针对具有伦理学背景的博士生，为下一代人工智能和数据伦理学研究人员提供培训。除技术培训外，参与者还将接受技术哲学和伦理方面的额外培训，使他们能够与人工智能从业者和研究人员合作，更好地将社会和伦理考虑融入人工智能。项目参与者将向机器学习、自主机器人、人工智能与信息伦理、技术法律等学科的顶尖专家学习和指导，并应用他们的新知识来解决人工智能发展中的重要问题。该项目的主要目标是通过帮助建立一个多元化的人工智能伦理专家社区，促进社会负责任地开发和实施人工智能，这些专家将塑造和建设未来的人工智能伦理领域。人工智能和数据伦理培训计划将有三个核心目标。它将增加参与者在该领域进行高质量研究所需的内容掌握；它将提供专业发展机会，使参与者能够进行跨学科的、有影响力的、超越学术范围的研究；它将培养一个由人工智能和数据伦理研究人员组成的协作和多样化的社区。该计划将通过由跨学科专家团队领导的关于人工智能和数据伦理的基础主题和当前问题的研讨会，跨学科教师支持与人工智能和数据伦理相关的研究项目，以及参与代际和跨学科指导小组来实现这些目标。该培训项目还包括专业发展研讨会，内容包括如何获得面向公众的奖学金、制定拨款提案、与学术界以外的合作伙伴建立合作关系、实施包容性指导，以及专家演讲系列，研究人员将在其中分享前沿工作、讨论职业道路，并与参与者建立联系。该奖项由伦理与责任研究（ER2）计划共同资助。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award supports the development of an intensive, interdisciplinary summer program to provide training for the next generation of AI and data ethics researchers by targeting doctoral students with a background in ethics. Participants will receive additional training in the philosophy and ethics of technology alongside technical training, enabling them to collaborate with AI practitioners and researchers to better integrate social and ethical considerations into AI. Program participants will learn from and be mentored by leading experts in machine learning, autonomous robotics, AI and information ethics, technology law, and other disciplines and apply their new knowledge to solve important problems in the development of AI. This project’s primary aim is contributing to societal capacity to responsibly develop and implement AI by helping to build a diverse community of AI ethics experts who will shape and build the field of AI ethics going forward.The AI and Data Ethics Training program will have three core objectives. It will increase participant’s content mastery needed to perform quality research in this area; it will provide professional development opportunities to prepare participants to conduct interdisciplinary, impactful research that reaches beyond the academy; and it will foster a collaborative and diverse community of AI and data ethics researchers. The program will accomplish these objectives through a seminar on foundational topics and current issues in AI and data ethics led by an interdisciplinary team of experts, interdisciplinary faculty support on research projects related to AI and data ethics, and participation in inter-generational and interdisciplinary mentoring groups. The training program also includes professional development workshops on how to approach public-facing scholarship, develop grant proposals, build collaborations with partners outside of academia, and practice inclusive mentoring, as well as an expert speaker series where researchers share cutting edge work, discuss career pathways, and develop connections with participants.This award was co-funded by the Ethical and Responsible Research (ER2) Program.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.