The Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence at the Technical University of Munich (IEAI)  is excited to announce that it has received funding from the European Union to lead a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action (MSCA) Doctoral Network. Over €3.5 Million has been allocated to the project’s five EU partners, four of which are also members of the EuroTech Universities Alliance, to fund 13 doctoral candidates over 36 months:

Technical University of Munich (TUM)

Technical University of Eindhoven (Tu/e)

Denmark Technical University (DTU)

Region Hovedstaden (RegionH)

Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (Technion)

Two Swiss Research Partners will also join the network with four additional doctoral candidates from:

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

IDIAP Research Institute

Associate Partners from Industry will also provide secondment opportunities at:

DPG Media

EHS Medas

Datacation

Fujitsu Germany

Having been kicked off in September 2024, the alignAI – value-ALIGNed socio-technical systems using large-language models (LLMs) project will train doctoral candidates in the interdisciplinary Large Language Model (LLM) research field. The project will focus on aligning LLMs with human values to ensure their development and deployment are ethically sound and socially beneficial. By integrating expertise from social sciences, humanities, and technical disciplines, the project will address critical issues such as explainability and fairness, ensuring LLMs contribute positively to education, mental health, and news consumption. 

Furthermore, TUM will host five new doctoral candidates under the project at the TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology. The supervisors include Prof. Dr. Christoph Lütge; Prof. Dr. Anna Keune; Prof. Dr. Azzurra Ruggeri and Prof. Dr. Urs Gasser. The project will be coordinated by Dr. Caitlin Corrigan and Auxane Boch at the IEAI. 

The IEAI is pleased to already open the recruitment process for the two doctoral candidates that will be directly hosted at the IEAI and supervised by Prof. Dr. Christoph Lütge. The focus of these two candidates in the project with be on:

  1. Mapping societal values and assessing the impact of LLMs on vulnerable groups to develop ethical principles for LLM value alignment and governance models.
  2. Incorporating high ethical and legal standards in the development of LLM-based tools for mental health purposes.

To learn more about the new positions and the application process, please visit our Jobs page here:  https://www.ieai.sot.tum.de/jobs/