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<div>We are recruiting one post-doctoral researcher to work with Dr Nadin Kokciyan and Prof Michael Rovatsos at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh.
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<div>The successful candidate will work on the project titled 'Making Systems Answer: Dialogical Design as a Bridge for Responsibility Gaps in Trustworthy Autonomous Systems' within the UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Programme. This is an exciting opportunity
to work in a multidisciplinary project with AI, philosophy, ethics, and social science researchers that aims develop a new approach to make AI systems answerable to people despite their inability to assume responsibility for their actions in the same way humans
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<div>We will focus on the development of new techniques and tools for making autonomous systems (AS) more answerable and bridging responsibility gaps. A theoretical framework with perspectives on responsibility as answerability will be introduced in other workstreams
of the project. This framework will guide the design of the answerability-enhancing tool to be developed as part of the project. The post-holder will be designing and developing technological tools that support the dialogical process human stakeholders engage
in when resolving responsibility gaps; and exploring technical requirements for AS to be able to provide the answers required of them in the process of dialogical responsibility gap resolution.
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<div>The post-holder will be expected to: (i) design a formal representation language to develop argumentation schemes for responsibility to support answerability; (ii) design a computational framework that will include a mediator agent that facilitates communication
among stakeholders and guides the process with relevant questions and answers at appropriate points; (iii) implement the computational framework as a web-based dialogical platform, which will support stakeholders in putting forward their arguments in a structured
manner using constructs provided by the platform.</div>
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<div><b>Duration:</b> 24 months</div>
<div><b>Start date: </b>no later than June 2022</div>
<div><b>Application link:</b> <a href="https://edin.ac/3GDzc1M" title="https://edin.ac/3GDzc1M">
https://edin.ac/3GDzc1M</a> (apply by 04/Feb/2022)</div>
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Informal enquiries should be directed to Dr Nadin Kokciyan (nadin.kokciyan@ed.ac.uk).<br>
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