Visiting Faculty | AI & Society
The Open Institute for Digital Transformations at Sciences Po
Sciences Po is calling for outstanding applications from around the world for visiting faculty funded by the Open Institute for Digital Transformations1 .
Through the Open Institute for Digital Transformations, Sciences Po seeks to promote a new institutional approach to research and teaching based on reaffirming the importance of social sciences and humanities for the study of digital technologies as well as collaboration between the social sciences and humanities and the natural and computer sciences.
In the 2027-2028 academic year (Fall 2027, Spring 2028), Sciences Po will open two visiting faculty positions on the transformative role of AI in society and its potential impacts on democracy for up to a semester-long stay. Research proposals may focus on, but are not limited to, the following themes:
- The economic impact of AI technologies, including on productivity, markets, and the structure and history of technology companies;
- AI and society: the transformation of work in various industries (health, insurance, news, creation, entertainment, science and education, etc.) including the fairness and inequality issues machine learning-based technology may rise;
- Digital law and governance: including regulation of AI technologies, algorithms and their use in social media, digital surveillance, rule of law and constitutional freedoms, challenges and opportunities of AI decision-making in government, geopolitics and global governance of AI, legal issues of generative AI productions, digitalisation of public services and governance, etc;
- Algorithms and politics, including the impact of social media on political competition and partisanship; political communication and discourse; political participation, public consultations, and elections; democratic innovations;
- AI and the information ecosystem, including misinformation, narrative manipulation, microtargeting, and media system transformation;
- Technology and public participation, including measurement of public opinion online, harmful online discourse (hate speech), online social mobilization, etc;
- Social sciences and AI: new methods and data sources for the humanities and social sciences including: machine learning for social sciences, in silico sociology, digital humanities, etc.
CONDITIONS
Visiting faculty will receive a gross monthly stipend of 5 160 euros (before mandatory social security contributions and income taxes are deducted).
Visiting faculty are expected to teach one full course (12 x 2 hour sessions) with a digital/technological focus over the semester. They are also expected to contribute actively to the research community they will join, and to deliver at least one academic lecture or seminar presentation during their stay in line with the activities organized by the Open Institute for Digital Transformations.
Visiting faculty will be given access to an office space on campus, in the heart of Paris, to the Sciences Po library and other university facilities and to the research activities and events programme driven by the research unit in which they will be hosted.
The stay is to be scheduled between September 2027 and December 2027 or February 2028 and May 2028.
