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

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About Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Metascience & Al Postdoctoral Fellowship

Al (currently understood as a set of technologies including machine learning, deep learning, and foundation models) could accelerate scientific discovery, whether through narrow applications like DeepMind's AlphaFold, or general applications such as advances in Al-enabled lab robotics, evidence synthesis, or statistical inference. There are many practical and technical challenges to solve before society has fully-fledged autonomous 'Al scientists'. Nevertheless, it seems inevitable that over the coming years public and private R&D funders will make significant investments both to diffuse and adopt Al technologies, and to solve technical challenges, in the direction of a more heavily Al-mediated research.

This program will support a cohort of postdoctoral researchers to deepen their understanding of Al technology and pursue career paths which evaluate the phenomenon of Al-mediated science and guide its pursuit, covering one or more of the following objectives:

• Building our understanding of how the growing adoption of Al is changing the research landscape and the day-to-day work of researchers;
• Building our understanding of the epistemic, metascientific, ethical and/or socioeconomic implications of these changes; and
• Building understanding of how governments, industry, and/or funding organizations should respond to improve our research landscape.

• Sponsor Organisation: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Benefits of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Metascience & Al Postdoctoral Fellowship

• Grant up to $250,000 will be given to support researchers.

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Metascience & Al Postdoctoral Fellowship Requirements

• Open to early career researchers who will have completed their PhD by the start date of the fellowship or who can demonstrate equivalent research or innovation experience, and who do not yet hold a permanent or tenure-track academic position.
• This fellowship program is intended for researchers who are uniquely interested in Al's impact on science, rather than general Al ethics, safety and society-related topics (as these are covered substantially elsewhere).

Application Date and Process

• Click on the link to the application website to apply.

Your application must be submitted by 5pm ET on April 10, 2025. You will not be able to apply after this time.

Application Deadline

10 April, 2025

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