AY2025-2026 #50966: Elizabeth Scurlock University Professor in Human Values: Endowed Chair of Ethics and Artificial Intelligence

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Description Southern Methodist University (SMU) seeks a visionary scholar at the associate or full professor level to lead our groundbreaking initiative in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Ethics beginning August 1, 2025. Over the past several years, SMU has been actively developing a big-data ecosystem, supported by next-generation research computing technology, to engage the disciplines across campus from physics to art, engineering to history, and business to education, in the pursuit of leading-edge research with impact. The Elizabeth Scurlock University Professor in Human Values: Endowed Chair of Ethics in Artificial Intelligence (Scurlock Chair), one of SMU’s two endowed university-level professorships, reports directly to the Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and represents our commitment to bringing an ethical and humanistic analysis to bear on the future of AI. We see this chair as an opportunity to expand our impact across both the artificial intelligence and ethics domains, and to bring to campus a world-renowned scholar who will contribute to, and expand upon, the robust work that is already taking place on campus in ways that benefit faculty, staff...