AI and Media Integrity Program Lead at Partnership on AI

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The Partnership on AI (PAI) is seeking a Program Lead to join the high-growth, high-impact AI and Media Integrity (AIMI) Program. The Program Lead will be based on the AI and Media Integrity team but will work across PAI programmatic areas on topics like fairness, explainability, safety, and trust. This Program Lead will report to the Head of the AI and Media Integrity program and work with PAI Partner organizations, including stakeholders from civil society, industry, media, and academia. This is a full time role with an imminent start date.

WHO WE ARE

The Partnership on AI is the leading forum addressing the most important and difficult decisions on the future of AI.

We are a non-profit that invites diverse voices into the process of technical governance, design, and deployment of AI technologies. Our essential Partners work together across industry, academia, and civil society to understand the implications of AI advancements and ensure they benefit society equitably. Through dialogue, insight, education, and guidance, PAI informs responsible AI solutions and identifies opportunities to address humanity’s pressing challenges.

Our vision is a future where AI empowers humanity by contributing to a more just, equitable, and prosperous world. Our mission is to bring diverse voices together across global sectors, disciplines, and demographics so developments in AI advance positive outcomes for people and society. If you are committed to a future of responsible AI and you are interested in joining the Partnership on AI in our quest, we genuinely appreciate your interest and we want to hear from you.

PAI’s Research and Programs team works to develop convenings, research, reporting, community-building, and policies that ensure AI benefits both people and society. We work with over 100 Partners from around the world to ultimately develop AI governance that ensures responsible, just, and equitable societal impact. There are five Program Areas at PAI that often have overlapping questions and elements: Fairness, Transparency, and Accountability; AI, Labor, and the Economy, Safety-Critical AI, AI and Media Integrity, and Inclusive Research and Design. Beginning in 2023, there will be more purposeful collaboration between programs and the AI and Media Integrity Program Lead will be an integral part of such cross-program development. For example, how might explainability be important when thinking about automated misinformation interventions? What are the implications of AI’s use in local newsrooms on the future of work and jobs? What is the responsible release protocol for generative media models that enable the generation of images from textual prompts?

PAI’s AI and Media Integrity Program Area works to create best practices for the development and deployment of AI technologies that impact digital media and online information. To do so, PAI coordinates those on the frontlines of information integrity challenges around the world, with those building and deploying technology – including actors from media, civil society, industry, and academia. We seek to investigate and promote a healthy online information ecosystem in the AI age by facilitating cross-sector convenings, producing research and reporting on multidisciplinary challenges, and informing policymaking. Online information and AI interact in many ways, and we address challenges across the knowledge pipeline: from content creation to dissemination and to the eventual interpretation by users around the world. Our work includes several project areas: 1) Synthetic and Manipulated Content, 2) Local News, and ) Content Targeting and Ranking.

The Program Lead will shape and advance the work across the AI and Media Integrity portfolio, with work that cross-cuts with other program areas. This individual will also focus on translating research and insights into practical recommendations that affect practice and policy.

Program Leads play a highly visible role at PAI in bringing people and ideas together by developing and executing the multistakeholder programmatic and research strategy.

The Program Lead will report to the Head of the AIMI Program and be responsible for programmatic, multistakeholder, product design and outreach processes across AIMI workstreams, with tremendous room for growth as the program scales and connects to other programs at PAI. The Program Lead will work closely with the Head of AIMI on designing and disseminating the outputs of multistakeholder programs, soliciting Partner and expert input, coordinating with other internal program teams at PAI coordinating pilots, translating insights into policy and practical recommendations, and additional activities as the programs evolve to include implementation phases.

The Program Lead will be responsible for project management within multiple workstreams , including establishing mechanisms for understanding Partners’ needs and challenges, tailoring program outputs to be useful as a part of the AI development process, consolidating input from multi-stakeholder processes, developing and executing strategies for program recruitment, advancement and adoption of recommendations and other programmatic leadership tasks.

The Program Lead will be joining ongoing initiatives that encompass research, design, testing, iteration, and implementation phases. They will shape and scope the AI and Media Integrity Steering Committee--a formal body of PAI Partners including multidisciplinary experts from Adobe, Amazon, BBC, CBC, Facebook, First Draft, Microsoft, The New York Times, WITNESS, and XPRIZE working to develop and advise projects that strengthen online public discourse. They will also work to cultivate and develop PAI’s work in AI and Local News, working to landscape the major ethical challenges journalists and platforms face using AI for local news production and distribution. Responsibilities will likely evolve over time. AIMI Programs interact with people from many different domains by design. Program Leads should have the ability to work effectively with demographically, geographically and disciplinarily diverse groups of stakeholders, including identifying areas of shared interests and divergent goals, generating buy-in and momentum for the programs, and distilling research spanning multiple disciplines for varied audiences.

PAI is headquartered in San Francisco, with a global membership base and scope. This role is eligible for remote work within the United States and Canada with no requirement to be located in San Francisco. The Head of the AI and Media Integrity Program is based in New York City.

QUALITIES THAT ARE IMPORTANT TO US:

PAI is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and we are committed to creating an inclusive environment in all aspects of employment, including recruiting, hiring, promoting, training, education assistance, social and recreational programs, compensation, benefits, transfers, discipline, and all privileges and conditions of employment. Employment decisions at PAI are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications.

PAI will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance or similar laws.

The Partnership on AI may become subject to certain governmental record keeping and reporting requirements for the administration of civil rights laws and regulations. We also track diversity in our workforce for the purpose of improving over time. In order to comply with these goals, the Partnership on AI invites employees to voluntarily self-identify their gender and race/ethnicity. Submission of this information is voluntary and refusal to provide it will not jeopardize or adversely affect employment or any consideration you may receive for employment or advancement. The information obtained will be kept confidential.

Applications for this job posting will be accepted until October 28 2022