Summer 2024 Responsible Tech Fellowship and Internship Opportunities
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Research and Legislative Intern, Common Cause
Common Cause is looking for a Media and Democracy Research & Legislative Intern to work at the intersection of media and democracy. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who is interested in the innerworkings of artificial intelligence, election disinformation, and broadband accessibility. This is a chance to learn and grow at a non-partisan grassroots organization dedicated to upholding the core values of American democracy.
Compensation: $6,562.50 for the 11 weeks paid in 5 equal twice monthly payments on the 15th and last day of the month.
Research Internship, Cyber Power and Future Conflict Programme, IISS-Asia, International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)
The research intern will contribute to the CPFC Programme in three core areas:
First, they will provide research assistance to the CPFC Senior Fellow on priority projects in the cyber and information domains.
Second, they will provide support for CPFC workshops and roundtables as well as the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue.
Third, they will participate in other activities relating to IISS-Asia, from internal team meetings to visits from external delegations, gaining experience of the IISS and how it operates.
Compensation: The successful candidate would ideally be able to start by 20 May 2024. The internship would be tenable for three - six months. The role would be remunerated at $1,200 SGD per month.
Intern, US Digital Policy and Platform Accountability, Institute for Strategic Dialogue
The US Digital Policy Intern would work closely with the Head of Technology and Society, the broader research teams in the US, and the Digital Policy Lab, to support ISD’s work on forming and implementing ISD’s policy agenda in the US. The Intern will assist the team in tracking digital policy developments, support stakeholder engagement, and help produce written outputs.
Compensation: $20 per hour
Research Fellowship, Pivotal
The Pivotal Research Fellowship will run in London this year from July 1st to August 30th, 2024. This will be Pivotal’s 4th research fellowship, offering a 9-week program with a strong set of mentors and research managers, focusing on risks from emerging technologies.
Compensation: £5000 stipend, travel & accommodation expense support, and free lunch & dinner Monday to Friday
Research Fellow, Digital Ethics, The Alan Turing Institute
The Research Fellow Dstl (Digital Ethics) will work across the Defence research portfolio to assist in building a consensus on the definitions and parameters for the ethics of applied research in future AI technologies. They will lead the development of ethical guidelines for responsible innovation practices to help ensure the smooth transition of these technologies from research into Defence's acquisition processes.
Compensation: The annual salary is £53,576 - £55,125, plus excellent benefits, including flexible working and family friendly policies
AI & National Security/Defense Fellow/Senior Fellow - Wadhwani Center for AI and Advanced Technologies, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
The Wadhwani Center for AI and Advanced Technologies seeks a highly motivated AI & National Security/Defense Fellow (or Senior Fellow) to play a key role in advancing the program’s research agenda that explores the national security and defense implications of artificial intelligence (AI) and other emerging technologies.
Compensation: The minimum annual salary for Fellow is $70,000, and the minimum annual salary for Senior Fellow is $85,000. Salary will be commensurate with experience.
Data Governance Fellowships, Masakhane
The Masakhane Research Foundation, through the support of FAIR Forward, an initiative of the German Development Cooperation (GIZ), announcde two Data Governance Fellowship positions.
Data sovereignty, African-centricity, sustainability, inclusivity and ownership are values fundamental to Masakhane. As it stands, Masakhane is regularly involved in language data collection activities. These are often volunteer efforts driven by researchers in a bid to create the datasets they need for their own research. Masakhane has also participated in dataset creation activities that have been funded by various organisations. Eg. Masakhane has been the recipient of a handful of Lacuna Fund grants to create language datasets and have collaborated with other organisations in the implementation of this work.
While data governance is a topic that is regularly addressed in Masakhane’s various meetings, Masakhane believes it requires dedicated resources to adequately explore, document and disseminate learnings. These learning are often additional outputs through various activities and therefore run the risk of not being intentionally documented. The ‘Data Governance’ Fellowships will be a step towards making sure of the intentionality of this task. Masakhane especially wants to hear from women and historically marginalised candidates with a passion for inclusive AI for sustainable development and a strong background in digital and AI-related topics.
Compensation: KES 2,730,240 before tax (approximately USD 20,984 using the current exchange rate - 130.11. As the funding is received in KES, payment will be made using the exchange rate made available by the Central Bank of Kenya on the day of payment)
Summer Internships, Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.)
Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.) is hiring summer interns for Social Media & Communications, Advocacy, Civil Rights, Research, and Nonprofit Fundraising. Click below to learn more about each opportunity!
Compensation: Not listed
ALLAI Internship
AIIAI is looking for students with a strong interest in responsible AI, who are eager to learn how to address AI’s legal, societal, and ethical implications. But most importantly, ALLAI is looking for students who are prepared to shoot for big things and are keen to have an impact.
Compensation: Not listed
2024 Summer Research Internship for PhD Students, North Eastern University
Prof. Sina Fazelpour is inviting applications for 12-week Research Internship positions to join a multidisciplinary team working on the epistemology, ethics and governance of human-AI collaboration and teaming this summer (June-August 2024). The basic premise of the project is that when AI models are meant to assist human experts, the primary unit of functional and ethical evaluation should be the human-AI team, and not just its individual members (e.g., AI models) in isolation. Working closely with Prof. Fazelpour and collaborators, including Prof. De-Arteaga (UT Austin), the successful applicant(s) will contribute to developing sociotechnical design, evaluation, and auditing tools that can help structure human-AI teams in a functionally robust and ethical manner.
Compensation: Research Interns will receive $6,000 per month, and are expected to be physically located in Boston for at least 50% of their internship.
Please note: All listed compensation figures on this page related to available fellowships and internships are subject to change without notice. Compensations figures were copied from the job listing from a company or organization’s webpage on the date the author of this content accessed the page (April 25, 2024). All Tech Is Human is not responsible for inaccurate financial figures, nor can we provide additional information or services related to the figures provided.