Assistant or Associate Professor, AI Ethics or Safety

Minorities and Philosophy International; College Park (MD); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

University of Maryland, College Park, through its Department of Philosophy and the Artificial Intelligence Interdisciplinary Institute (AIM), invites applications for an Assistant Professor or Associate Professor specializing in AI Ethics or AI Safety.

The role requires building a normative/conceptual research program and teaching undergraduates and graduate students, with active involvement in the new Human-Centered AI program.

Qualifications

• Education: PhD or equivalent in Philosophy or related field by time of appointment.
• Experience: 2 years of research in AI Ethics or AI Safety as primary areas; some university teaching experience.
• Preference: Ability to contribute teaching for the Human-Centered AI BA program, including its technical core.

Responsibilities

• Teach both undergraduate and graduate students in our PhD program.
• Maintain an active research program with normative/conceptual engagement with AI.
• Contribute to the department’s HCAI core and develop cross-cutting offerings at the AI-philosophy intersection.
• Engage in departmental, university, and professional service.

Skills

University teaching

Research in AI Ethics or AI Safety

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Education

PhD in Philosophy or related field

Job description

Job listing · University of Maryland, College Park

Assistant or Associate Professor, AI Ethics or Safety.

Department of Philosophy and the Artificial Intelligence Interdisciplinary Institute at Maryland (AIM)

Open rank · Tenure-track or tenured · College Park, Maryland · Hard deadline 1 December 2026

The department

The Department of Philosophy at the University of Maryland, College Park, is a vibrant and research-active department with strengths across many areas of philosophy, including ethics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, political philosophy, metaphysics, logic, philosophy of artificial intelligence, and decision theory. The department offers undergraduate and graduate programs in Philosophy, and hosts the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics major (PPE), as well as the university’s new BA in Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HCAI, in collaboration with AIM). Our faculty and students pursue philosophical questions with rigor, creativity, and attention to their significance for human life, public reason, science, technology, and society.

AIM is the Artificial Intelligence Interdisciplinary Institute at Maryland. Launched in 2024, it is UMD’s campus-wide hub for interdisciplinary AI research, education, and engagement. AIM brings together faculty and students across all of the university’s colleges and schools, spanning computer science and engineering, the humanities, social sciences, and other fields, with a particular commitment to responsible and ethical AI that serves the public good.

The position

The Department of Philosophy and AIM seek a tenure-track Assistant Professor or tenured Associate Professor specializing in AI Ethics or AI Safety. The successful candidate will maintain an active, innovative research program involving sustained normative and conceptual engagement with artificial intelligence, with interests broad enough to contribute across questions in AI ethics or AI safety and, ideally, with the technical literacy to engage productively with developments in AI. The successful candidate will teach and mentor undergraduates as well as graduate students in our PhD program; contribute substantially to the department’s role in HCAI, including its required technical and social cores; help develop further undergraduate and graduate offerings at the intersection of philosophy and AI; and participate in departmental, university, and professional service.

AOS: AI Ethics or Safety · AOC: Open

Qualifications

Education: PhD or equivalent in Philosophy or related field by the time of appointment.

Experience: 2 years of research in A.I. Ethics or A.I. Safety as primary areas of focus. Some prior teaching experience at the university level.

Preference: Ability to contribute teaching relevant to the new BA program in Human-Centered AI, and in particular in the technical core.

Required application materials

Assistant level: CV; cover letter; research statement; teaching statement; letters of recommendation (3).

Associate level: CV; cover letter; research statement (optional); names of potential recommenders to be consulted if the candidate is long-listed (2).