[Air-L] Summer Institute in Technology Ethics

[Don Heider]

Summer Institute in Technology Ethics (SITE) at Santa Clara University July
27-August 7, 2020, Santa Clara, California Markkula Center for Applied
Ethics at Santa Clara University CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR IN-RESIDENCE
STUDY.

We are now accepting applications for the in-residence SITE program from
qualified graduate and post-graduate students in Philosophy and closely
related fields. Thanks to the generosity of the Templeton World Charity
Foundation, Inc. through a Diverse Intelligences grant, a stipend will be
provided to all applicants who complete the in-residence program.
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis starting on January 10,
2020, closing on January 26, 2020 Decision notifications will be sent by
February 17, 2020.

The in-residence program for grad students and postdocs will be led by
internationally recognized faculty experts in AI ethics. In parallel,
Markkula Center experts in technology and AI ethics will offer a
non-residence curriculum for working technologists. These two SITE cohorts
will have multiple opportunities to interact and collaborate as well as
engage with other stakeholders in public fora, with the goal of enhancing
the rigor and interdisciplinary character of moral expertise in AI and
technology ethics shared by academics and working technologists.

Program Faculty The in-residence program is co-led by two distinguished
experts in AI ethics: *Shannon Vallor* (currently the Regis and Dianne
McKenna Professor of Philosophy at Santa Clara University, and the incoming
Baillie Gifford Chair in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence at
the University of Edinburgh) and *John Sullins* (Professor of Philosophy at
Sonoma State University and co-Director of the Center for Ethics, Law and
Society). Vallor received the World Technology Award for Ethics in 2015,
and in 2011 Sullins was honored with the Herbert A. Simon Award for
Outstanding Research in Computing and Philosophy by the International
Association for Computing and Philosophy. Both have worked as consulting
ethicists with technologists in industry and academia, and have provided
ethics expertise to policymakers and public agencies worldwide.

Visiting faculty will also include: *Safiya Noble* (
https://safiyaunoble.com/), *Aimee van Wynsberghe* (
https://aimeevanwynsberghe.com/), *David Danks *(
https://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/philosophy/people/faculty/danks.html), *Patrick
Lin* (
https://www2.calstate.edu/csu-system/faculty-staff/outstanding-faculty/Pages/Patrick-Lin.aspx),
and *Rob Reich* (https://politicalscience.stanford.edu/people/rob-reich)

You can find more information here:
https://www.scu.edu/media/ethics-center/technology-ethics/SITE-Student-Application.pdf


Don Heider
Executive Director