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<div class="">PhD studentship for UK student (4 years fully funded): Socially Responsible Norm Emergence</div>
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<div class="">Supervisor: Prof. Nathan Griffiths, Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick.</div>
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<div class="">Start: Sept/Oct 2018</div>
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<div class="">We are seeking a PhD student for a project investigating the human-facing aspects of artificial intelligence (AI). The overall aim is to use agent-based modelling to develop mechanisms for norm emergence and behaviour change, to encourage desirable
behaviours (e.g. using active travel instead of driving). Typically, norm emergence is facilitated through incentivisation mechanisms in the form of recommendations, rewards, or punishments. However, existing AI-based approaches do not consider the social
effects of such interventions. Similarly, the resulting mechanisms and machine learning models are typically opaque and not human-readable. Moreover, even in cases where they are human readable, there is typically no attempt to present the process to users
in a transparent manner, or to engender trust and demonstrate fairness. A secondary aim of this project is to incorporate social goals into the norm emergence process (e.g. to encourage fairness) and to develop human-facing explanations. </div>
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<div class="">The core aims of the project are as follows.</div>
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<div class="">1. Norm emergence and behaviour change - encouraging desirable behaviours.</div>
<div class="">2. Socially responsible recommendation systems - incorporating social goals intro recommender systems.</div>
<div class="">3. Explanation, trust and transparency of machine learning - developing trustworthy ML with human-facing explanations.</div>
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<div class="">Candidates should ideally have a computer science or data science background, although candidates from other scientific disciplines will be considered. Candidates should have strong analytical skills, and should have experience in programming
with Python, or show an aptitude for programming agent-based models. Due to the way the project is funded this is only available for UK students.</div>
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<div class="">For further details please contact Prof. Nathan Griffiths - <a href="mailto:Nathan.Griffiths@warwick.ac.uk" class="">Nathan.Griffiths@warwick.ac.uk</a></div>
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