Currently reading the latest NSF/Amazon call (NSF 21-585) which goes out of its way to say interdisciplinary perspectives are crucial and that "this program supports the conduct of fundamental computer science research".
So, is interdisciplinary work on "AI" actually "fundamental computer science research"?
"The lead PI on each proposal must bring computer science expertise to the research. Computationally focused research efforts informed by socio-technical and social behavioral needs of the field are broadly encouraged." Was this thing written by a committee?
"proposers are encouraged to be ambitious in formulating their scientific explorations and to consider multiple contexts and to integrate disciplinary perspectives from the social, behavioral, and cognitive science (for ex) as needed and appropriate to the scope of the work."
If Amazon were really interested in improving the "trustworthiness of AI", I think they'd contribute a bunch of funding to initiatives that required that the PI *not* be in CS.
"Projects must clearly be driven by fairness considerations and show computational innovation." Like, maybe the solution doesn't actually lie in computational innovation?
"proposals should describe the challenges that drive fundamental computer science research, incorporating multiple disciplinary perspectives as needed and appropriate to the scope of the work."
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