**Project / Job description**:
A 3-year PhD Research Fellowship is available at Simula Metropolitan Center for Digital Engineering (SimulaMet), within our research effort on the security and safety of AI systems.
Most security and safety work on AI happens where models are built. We work where they are used. As AI systems move into hospitals, public administration, and other consequential settings, the institutions that deploy them, and the regulators and auditors who oversee them, need to establish whether a given system is safe to use, independently of the vendor that built it. Today, they largely cannot. Closing that gap is the purpose of this position, and it grows more urgent as accountability shifts toward the organisations that deploy and audit AI, not only those that train it.
The PhD researcher will develop methods and tools for evaluating, red-teaming, and monitoring AI systems as they are actually deployed, large language models today, and increasingly agentic and m...