📋 Tender Overview
Funded Value6989517Funded PeriodApr 19 - Sep 27FunderEPSRCProject StatusActiveProject CategoryTraining GrantProject ReferenceEPS0234371Research Area ART-AI is a multidisciplinary CDT bringing together computer science social science and engineering so that its graduates will be specialists in one subject but have substantial training and experience in the others. The ART-AI management team brings together research in AI HCIpoliticseconomics and engineering while the CDT as a whole has a team of 40 supervisors across seven departments in three faculties and the institutes for policy research IPR and for mathematical innovation IMI. This is not a marriage of convenience many CDT members have experience of interdisciplinary working and together with CDT cohorts and partners we will create accessible transparent and intelligible AI driven by ethical and responsible principles to address issues in for example policy design and political decision-making development of trust in AI for humans and organisations autonomous systems sensing and data analysis explanation of machine decision-making public service design social simulation and the ethics of socio-technical systems.Need Hardly a day passes without a news article on the wonders and dangers of AI. But decisions - by individuals organisations society and government - on how to use or not use AI should be informed and ethical. We need policy experts to recognise both opportunities and threats engineers to extend our technical capabilities and scientists to establish what is tractable and to predict likely outcomes of policies and innovations. We need mutually informed decisions taking account of diverse needs and perspectives. This need is expressed in measured terms by a slew of major reports see Case for Support and Commons and Lords committees all reflecting the UKCES Sector Insights Evidence report 92 2015 prediction of a need by 2022 for 0.5M additional workers in the digital sector against just a third of that number graduating annually. To realise the government vision for AI White Paper a critical fraction of those 0.5M workers need to be leaders and innovators with in-depth scientific and technical knowledge to make the right calls on what is possible what is desirable and how it can be most safely deployed. Beyond the UK a 2018 PwC report indicates AI will impact 10 of jobs or 326 million globally by 2030 with 33 in high-skill jobs across most economic sectors. The clear conclusion is a need for a significant cadre of high-skill workers and leaders with a detailed knowledge of AI an understanding of how to utilise it and its political social and economic implications. The ART-AI is designed to deliver these in collaboration and co-creation with stakeholders in these areas.Approach ART-AI will produce interdisciplinary graduates and interdisciplinary research by i exposing its students to all three di
