The Berkman Klein Center and MIT Media Lab are looking for a cohort of professionals to join their 2019 Assembly Cohort. Assembly, beginning March 11, 2019 and ending June 15, 2019, “will challenge Assemblers to confront emerging problems related to the ethics and governance of artificial intelligence.”
Application deadline: September 2, 2018.
Assembly gathers a small cohort of technologists, managers, policymakers, and other professionals to confront emerging problems related to the ethics and governance of artificial intelligence. Over four months, participants engage in a design-thinking process, a course led by Harvard and MIT faculty, and a collaborative development period to explore hard problems with running code. Read more about the program: http://bkmla.org/.
The cohort will divide into teams to create actionable projects that address real-world problems, either as part of ongoing Initiative work or as part of a new Assembly project. For example, last year, teams built a prototype to circumvent facial recognition systems using adversarial attacks, developed a playbook for cities interested in purchasing or developing AI systems, and created a prototype of a dataset “nutrition label”, among other projects.
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We are looking for professionals who are interested in artificial intelligence and governance issues, as well as experience in one or more of the following areas: communications, data science, development, entrepreneurship, machine learning, policy / law, project management, or other relevant skills.
Source: Call for Applications: Assembly Cohort 2019 | Berkman Klein Center, MIT Media Lab