The Pulitzer Center AI Accountability Fellowships for 2023–2024 are now accepting applications. The goal of the Al Accountability Fellowships is to assist journalists who are working on in-depth stories about AI accountability that look at how governments and businesses use surveillance and predictive technologies to make decisions about policing, healthcare, social welfare, the criminal justice system, hiring, and other areas.
Grant Summary
They work to assist reporters and news organizations that accurately reflect the variety of communities impacted by AI technologies. The Fellowship is intended for journalists across all beats, desks, and formats who want to deepen, widen, and diversify their coverage of artificial intelligence via an accountability lens.
The reporting project that journalists want to work on during their Fellowship must be included in their application. They support enterprise and accountability programs that investigate the actual effects of algorithms on policy, people, and communities using a range of techniques, such as data analysis, records requests, and shoe-leather reporting.
| Title: | Fellowships for AI Accountability at the Pulitzer Center in 2023–2024 |
| Nationality: | Global |
| Amount: | (up to $20,000) |
| Deadline: | July 1st, 2023 |
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The Fellowship helped 10 Fellows report in 10 different countries during its inaugural year. The AI Accountability Fellows class of 2022 presented research on issues important to equity and human rights, including how AI is affecting the gig economy, social welfare, policing, migration, and border control.
Although they encourage projects on a wide range of topics related to the effects of AI on society, they are putting a particular emphasis on some issues this year. The Pulitzer Center is looking to fund at least one study that explores how AI and conflict, war, and peace are related.
They are also seeking participants for a project that, in collaboration with Princeton University’s Digital Witness Lab, focuses on the influence WhatsApp, a messaging app, has on local public debate. We strongly encourage applicants who have reporting initiatives planned on these subjects to apply.
Benefits
the chance to spend a lot of time working on a pressing, little-covered issue.
access to mentors and possibilities for specialized training.
Support for public records access and free legal counsel.
a group of colleagues with similar interests that will last after your Fellowship.
Support with funding of up to $20,000 for stipends, travel costs, data analysis, and requests for documents.
the chance to recruit capable partners for your current project or future endeavors.
Eligibility for Fellowships for AI Accountability at the Pulitzer Center in 2023
- Open to staff or independent journalists who operate across a variety of media, such as print, radio, video, and multimedia.
- Team players having the knowledge and/or skills necessary to work together across borders and newsrooms.
- reporters who have a keen interest in the effects of AI on society and why this issue is important for world peace.
- reporters ready to take part in outreach initiatives connected to their stories, like gatherings at colleges and institutions.
- Reporters can work from any location. There are no nearby Fellowships.
Application
You will need to submit the following in order to apply:
- Describe how this Fellowship fits into your career path and why you are the most qualified candidate to be an Al Accountability Fellow in a brief statement of purpose. (500 words)
- a thorough outline of the reporting project you hope to work on while receiving your Fellowship. Don’t suggest broad ideas; instead, suggest a specific project that demonstrates some pre-reporting on the issue. You will stand out from the crowd of applicants with a strong, well-researched project proposal and a reporting schedule. (500 words)
- a spending plan outlining the project’s expected costs. Records requests, software, data analysis, travel and lodging, and stipends are a few examples of categories.
- Three illustrations (links) of your best articles from the last three years, not all of which must be about artificial intelligence.
- an interest or commitment letter from the media outlet(s) that would be publishing your story(s). A written statement from your editor or newsroom management stating that you have their support in applying for the AI Accountability Fellowship, if you are a staff reporter. In this letter, it should be made clear that your newsroom will allow you to participate in the fellowship activities, and that they will support your efforts to publish the articles you generate as part of the fellowship. It may also explain why your manager believes you would be a good fit for this Fellowship.
- Three references from the workforce These could be letters of recommendation or contact details.
- a duplicate of your curriculum vitae or CV.
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