The Irish Council for Civil Liberties is hiring a technical expert with experience in a domain related to understanding AI/automated decision making, such as adversarial machine learning or inversion attacks. We want to understand what happens (intentionally and unintentionally) when artificial intelligence tools make high impact automatic decisions.
What you will do
ICCL is developing a project to understand what happens when artificial intelligence tools make high impact automatic decisions. High impact examples may include automated border control, social payments checks, antifraud systems, school exam grading, discriminatory pricing, content moderation, and so on.
We want to contribute to the development of European and national AI legislation, in particular the proposed EU Artificial Intelligence Act. We want to uncover high impact examples of harmful and positive uses of automated decision making in Europe.
You will contribute to the shape and design of the project. You will report to a senior fellow at ICCL, but this project will have your personal stamp on it.
Together we will ask questions like: What uses of automated decisionmaking have the most impact on people? What data are used to make these decisions? What is the logic of the decisionmaking? If personal data are used, what are the stated processing purposes? What are the consequences of the decisions? What are the unintended consequences?
If it turns out that these are the wrong questions, or that we cannot gather the data to answer these questions, you will propose changes to the project to fix the problem.
Who are we?
The Irish Council for Civil Liberties has been at the forefront of every major rights advance in Irish society for over 40 years. We helped legalise homosexuality, divorce, and contraception. We drove police reform, defending suspects’ rights during dark times. ICCL is Ireland’s leading human rights organisation. ICCL has worked to uphold digital rights for decades.
This project is funded by the European AI Fund.
Conditions
Full time. This is a PAYE position.
ICCL is based in Dublin. You can work remotely. You may have to travel occasionally.
The role is for 12 months, with the intention to extend if the European AI Fund makes a commitment to further funding.
The anticipated salary for this role is between €55,000 and €70,000 dependent on prior experience.
Required
- Experience in a domain related to understanding automated decision making, such as adversarial machine learning or inversion attacks.
- Excellent English.
- Can work in Europe.
- Capacity to adapt and improve the project.
- A burning desire to bring transparency to AI.
- Ability to work with non-technical colleagues.
Desired
- Strong academic or industry record. You may have MSc/PhD in mathematics, statistics, computer science, or engineering, or a related field.
- Some awareness of European Union AI and data protection policy developments, especially the proposed EU Artificial Intelligence Act.
To apply
Send a note/cover letter explaining your interest in the area, and demonstrating your expertise in automated decision making. You can include papers, open source code/webpages that demonstrate your expertise to info@iccl.ie before 5pm Dublin time on 18 June 2021. To ensure that your submission is successful applicants must put ‘ICCL Technology Fellow – Application’ in the subject line of the email.”