Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Metascience & AI Postdoctoral Fellowship 2025 (up to $250,000) – YOA

Deadline: April 10, 2025

Applications are open for the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Metascience & AI Postdoctoral Fellowship 2025. This is a postdoctoral fellowship program for grants of up to $250,000 USD to assist early profession researchers within the social sciences and humanities (with specific emphasis on philosophy, sociology of science, and metascience) who’re concerned about constructing a profession in understanding the implications of AI for the science and analysis ecosystem.

AI (at present understood as a set of applied sciences together with machine studying, deep studying, and basis fashions) may speed up scientific discovery, whether or not by slim purposes like DeepMind’s AlphaFold, or normal purposes comparable to advances in AI-enabled lab robotics, proof synthesis, or statistical inference. There are many sensible and technical challenges to resolve earlier than society has totally-fledged autonomous ‘AI scientists’. Nevertheless, it appears inevitable that over the approaching years private and non-private R&D funders will make important investments each to diffuse and undertake AI applied sciences, and to resolve technical challenges, within the course of a extra closely AI-mediated analysis.

This program will assist a cohort of postdoctoral researchers to deepen their understanding of AI know-how and pursue profession paths which consider the phenomenon of AI-mediated science and information its pursuit, masking a number of of the next aims:

• Building our understanding of how the rising adoption of AI is altering the analysis panorama and the day-to-day work of researchers;
• Building our understanding of the epistemic, metascientific, moral and/or socioeconomic implications of those modifications; and
• Building understanding of how governments, trade, and/or funding organizations ought to reply to enhance our analysis panorama.

Benefits

• grant up to $250,000 can be given to assist researchers.

Eligibility

• Open to early profession researchers who can have accomplished their PhD by the beginning date of the fellowship or who can display equal analysis or innovation expertise, and who don’t but maintain a everlasting or tenure-observe tutorial place.
• This fellowship program is meant for researchers who’re uniquely concerned about AI’s affect on science, somewhat than normal AI ethics, security and society-associated matters (as these are coated considerably elsewhere).

Application

Your application should be submitted by 5pm ET on April 10, 2025. You will be unable to apply after this time.

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For extra data, go to Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship.