Call for Applications for Visiting Faculty: AI & Society 

Academic Year 2026-2027

Application deadline: November 7, 2025

In the 2026-2027 academic year (Fall 2026, Spring 2027), Sciences Po will open two visiting faculty positions in the social sciences or humanities, for up to a 3 months-stay 

Themes : 

Research proposals may focus on, but are not limited to, the following themes:

• The economic impact of AI technologies, including on productivity, markets, and the structure and history of technology companies;
• AI and society: the transformation of work in various industries (health, insurance, news, creation, entertainment, science and education, etc.) including the fairness and inequality issues machine learning-based technology may rise;
• Digital law and governance: including regulation of AI technologies, algorithms and their use in social media, digital surveillance, rule of law and constitutional freedoms, challenges and opportunities of AI decision-making in government, geopolitics and global governance of AI, legal issues of generative AI productions, digitalisation of public services and governance, etc;
• Algorithms and politics, including the impact of social media on political competition and partisanship; political communication and discourse; political participation, public consultations, and elections; democratic innovations;
• AI and the information ecosystem, including misinformation, narrative manipulation, micro-targeting, and media system transformation;
• Technology and public participation, including measurement of public opinion online, harmful online discourse (hate speech), online social mobilization, etc;
• Social sciences and AI: new methods and data sources for the humanities and social sciences including: machine learning for social sciences, in silico sociology, digital humanities, etc.

Dates : 

The 3-months stay is to be scheduled between : 

• September 2025 and December 2025, 
• or between January 2026 and May 2026.

Application deadline : 

• November 7, 2025

Detailled call : 

• FR : voir appel 2026-2027
• EN : See  2026-2027 call