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Oxford Joins Schmidt Futures' $148 Million Global Initiative to Accelerate Use of AI in Scientific Research
webAnnounces a $148M initiative to embed AI training in STEM postdoctoral research across nine universities, including Oxford. Relevant to AI safety as it shapes how the next generation of scientists learns to apply AI, including exposure to ethical and social implications of AI.
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The University of Oxford has joined eight other leading research universities in the Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship, a $148 million Schmidt Futures initiative. The programme will support approximately 160 fellows per year to apply AI techniques across STEM disciplines, with up to 20 fellows annually at Oxford. Fellows will receive training in AI topics including social and ethical implications, embedded within Oxford's Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division.
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- •Schmidt Futures is investing $148M in a global postdoctoral fellowship to accelerate AI adoption across STEM research at nine leading universities.
- •Oxford will host up to 20 fellows per year, embedded in MPLS Division research groups with training in core and advanced AI topics.
- •Fellows will receive education on the social and ethical implications of AI, not just technical skills.
- •The initiative aims to address uneven global adoption of AI in STEM and build an international network of AI-trained scientists.
- •Fellows at Oxford will also become associate research fellows of Reuben College, fostering cross-disciplinary collaboration.
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The University of Oxford is one of nine leading research universities around the world selected to deliver a new global postdoctoral fellowship programme to drive the innovative use of artificial intelligence across science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) research.
The Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship, a programme of Schmidt Futures, aims to accelerate the next scientific revolution by supporting talented postdoctoral researchers to apply AI techniques across the natural sciences, engineering and mathematical sciences.
The new initiative adds to Schmidt Futures’ existing philanthropic efforts to support the development and application of AI in innovative ways. It will initially support around 160 fellows per year, across the nine partner universities, for up to six years, with plans for future expansion to more countries and continents.
New methods in advanced computing and AI are increasingly contributing to revolutionary tools in scientific research and discovery, but the global adoption of AI in STEM disciplines is unevenly distributed and inconsistent. With one of Europe’s largest academic groupings of AI expertise, Oxford is ideally placed to capitalise on the promise of AI to accelerate scientific progress in a wide range of fields, such as developing new materials for clean energy applications, controlling large-scale quantum computers, or analysing the huge datasets generated by particle accelerators.
Up to 20 fellows will be selected to join the programme at Oxford each year, working within research groups embedded in the academic departments of the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences (MPLS) Division. Each will receive tailored training in both core and advanced AI topics, delivered by Oxford’s world-leading AI researchers and research software engineers, and have the chance to learn about the social and ethical implications of AI. They will also benefit from wider professional development opportunities as part of a global network of AI-trained scientists.
In addition, the postdoctoral researchers supported by the programme at Oxford will become associate research fellows of Reuben
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