The Department of Communication, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark, invites applications for a fully-funded three-year PhD Scholarship to be filled by February 1st 2027 or as soon as possible thereafter.

The position is part of the ForSe project, funded by the Carlsberg Foundation (Semper Ardens Accelerate) and led by Associate Professor Sille Obelitz Søe. The PhD student will conduct philosophical and conceptual investigations of how AI changes the conditions for forgetting and secrecy.

The ForSe project asks how AI changes the conditions for forgetting and secrecy with implications for humans. Humans who forget, humans who have secrets, and humans who want privacy. AI technologies influence the world, society, and humans by changing the conditions for important concepts such as forgetting and secrecy. Forgetting and secrecy are core to what it means to be human – core to the formation of personhood and identity. Yet, AI technologies (e.g. large language models and deep neural networks)



challenge forgetting as the technologies ‘never forget’ and challenge secrecy by collecting data and revealing patterns. At the same time, secrecy and forgetting are starting to influence AI systems in more technical senses.

The PhD student’s research activities will contribute to the aims of the project through philosophical, conceptual, and ethical analyses of the dynamics between AI and secrecy and forgetting, especially in the anchoring context of intelligence practices as devised by the project framework. The successful candidate is expected to develop and propose an independent original project working across WP1 and WP2.

We seek a candidate with an educational background in philosophy (e.g. philosophy of technology, philosophy of information, information ethics), intelligence studies, information studies, or related disciplines. The successful candidate will be expected to publish scientific articles within the context of the project and to p

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