Postdoc in digital minds and moral circle expansion

[ISHPSS]

From: Jacy Reese Anthis <ja...@UCHICAGO.EDU>

Dear colleagues,

The Sentience Institute is hiring researchers to study digital minds and moral circle expansion. We are open to a range of research backgrounds and interests within that scope, including moral, social, and cognitive psychology.

For more information, please visit the job posting on our website. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis. This is a remote position open to applicants from anywhere in the world.

Examples of our work:

-----

[Experiment] Ladak, Ali, Jamie Harris, and Jacy Reese Anthis. "Features of Moral Consideration for Artificial Entities: A Conjoint Experiment."

[Experiment] Ladak, Ali, Matti Wilks, and Jacy Reese Anthis. "Extending Perspective Taking to Non-Human Groups."

[Conceptual paper] Saad, Brad, and Adam Bradley. "Digital Suffering: Why It’s a Problem and How to Prevent It." Inquiry.

[Survey] Pauketat, Janet VT and Jacy Reese Anthis. 2022. “Predicting the Moral Consideration of Artificial Intelligences.” Computers in Human Behavior.

[Survey] Pauketat, Janet VT, Ali Ladak, and Jacy Reese Anthis. 2022. “Artificial Intelligence, Morality, and Sentience (AIMS) Survey: 2021.”

[Blog post] Pauketat, Janet. 2021. "Psychological Perspectives Relevant to Artificial Sentience."

[Literature review] Harris, Jamie, Jacy Reese Anthis. 2021. "The Moral Consideration of Artificial Entities: A Literature Review." Science and Engineering Ethics.

[Conceptual paper] Anthis, Jacy Reese, and Eze Paez. 2021. "Moral Circle Expansion: A Promising Strategy to Impact the Far Future." Futures.

-----

Please feel free to email me (ja...@uchicago.edu) with any questions or if you are interested in collaborating on these topics.

Sincerely,

Jacy Reese Anthis
Co-founder, Sentience Institute