What are the responsibilities and job description for the Summer 2025 Paid Intern, Digital, Tech & Analytics Department (AI Research) position at ACLU - Internships?
The ACLU seeks a Graduate or Undergraduate AI Research Intern in the Analytics Division of the Technology Department of the ACLU's National office in New York, NY, Washington, DC. This position can be remote or hybrid (New York or Washington DC)
The Team :
The ACLU Technology Department provides trusted, dependable, and impactful analytics, engineering and product design and management expertise for the ACLU. In partnership with experts across the ACLU, the technology team delivers best-in-class solutions, services, and innovation that advance the ACLU mission and organizational priorities.
ACLU Analytics partners with teams across the organization to enable the ACLU to make smart, evidence-based decisions and bring quantitative insights on our issues to the courtroom and the public. Our team's work ranges from social science research for litigation & advocacy, to analysis & reporting for fundraising and engagement, to building and maintaining our data infrastructure. We strive to ensure the ACLU leads by example in the ethical use of data and technology. This includes maintaining our privacy and security standards, pushing for transparent data practices from government and corporate actors, and helping to steward high standards for algorithmic fairness, accountability, and transparency.
What You'll Do :
Reporting to the Director of Legal Analytics and collaborating with our Algorithmic Justice Specialist and DevOps engineer , the AI Research Intern will conduct quantitative and / or qualitative research and analysis to support and develop the ACLU's approach to generative AI. Working in close partnership with ACLU technologists, attorneys, policy advocates, and members of the ACLU's generative AI working group, you will conduct applied research on the accuracy, privacy, security, transparency and bias of various generative AI systems. This may include evaluating available generative AI systems against ACLU values and requirements using various sociotechnical approaches and communicating your findings in research papers and reports, presentations, memos, or other written outputs. You may also support other projects within the legal analytics team, including critically analyzing the role of algorithms in high stakes areas like hiring, housing, and credit, analyzing emerging state and local AI policy. Your analyses will contribute to the development of methods for leveraging emerging technologies at ACLU while maintaining high standards for algorithmic accountability, privacy, and security.
Your Day to Day
- Conduct sociotechnical analyses of generative AI systems in line with ACLU values and potential use cases. Depending on your background and interests, this may include :
Conducting a landscape analysis of current generative AI offerings and possible implementations, evaluating various options given potential ACLU use cases
What You'll Bring :
Future ACLU-ers Will :
Internship Logistics :
Priority Application Deadline : February 25, 2025
While there is a priority deadline, our project is committed to reviewing all applications on a rolling basis until the closing of posting.
Why the ACLU :
For over 100 years, the ACLU has worked to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the United States. Whether it's ending mass incarceration, achieving full equality for the LGBTQ community, establishing new privacy protections for our digital age, or preserving the right to vote or the right to have an abortion, the ACLU takes up the toughest civil liberties cases and issues to defend all people.
Our Commitment to Accessibility, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
Accessibility, equity, diversity, and inclusion are core values of the ACLU and central to our work to advance liberty, equality, and justice for all. For us diversity, equity and inclusion are not just check-the-box activities, but a chance for us to make long-term meaningful change. We are a community committed to learning and growth, humility and grace, transparency and accountability. We believe in a collective responsibility to create a culture of belonging for all people within our organization - one that respects and embraces difference; treats everyone equitably; and empowers our colleagues to do the best work possible. We are as committed to anti-oppression and anti-racism internally as we are externally. Because whether we're in the courts or in the office, we believe 'We the People' means all of us.
With this commitment in mind, we strongly encourage applications from all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, marital status, citizenship, disability, veteran status and record of arrest or conviction, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
The ACLU is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If you are a qualified individual with a disability and need assistance applying online, please email benefits.hrdept@aclu.org. If you are selected for an interview, you will receive additional information regarding how to request accommodations for the interview process.
The ACLU does not accept unsolicited calls or emails from candidates regarding their application status.
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