Research Intern- AI Ethics

Sony AI America, a branch of Sony AI, is a remotely distributed organization spread across the U.S. and Canada. Sony AI is Sony’s new research organization pursuing the mission to use AI to unleash human creativity. Sony AI works closely with Sony’s other business units, including Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC., Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., and Sony Music Entertainment. With some 900 million Sony devices in hands and homes worldwide today, a vast array of Sony movies, television shows and music, and the PlayStation Network, Sony creates and delivers more entertainment experiences to more people than anyone else on earth. To learn more: https://ai.sony/

About Sony Research Ethics Team

Sony Research is dedicated to driving innovation, advancing technology and ensuring that AI is developed responsibly, ethically, and inclusively. The AI Ethics team focuses on creating frameworks, tools, and methodologies that promote trust, transparency, fairness, and accountability in AI tools and technologies. https://ai.sony/projects/ai-ethics/

Position Summary

We are seeking a motivated Research Intern to join our interdisciplinary team at the forefront of AI Ethics, Safety, and Responsible AI for a 3-month research internship. You will work on open research questions in generative AI, including data collection, guardrails, evaluation, and benchmarking to tackle fundamental ethical challenges that arise when AI is deployed at scale in a global entertainment company. This is an opportunity to conduct meaningful, publishable research in collaboration with experienced researchers and engineers across a globally diverse team. We actively support interns in co-authoring papers and submitting to top-tier venues, making this an ideal opportunity to advance your doctoral research while contributing to real-world impact.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities will depend on the project you are assigned to, and will include a combination of the following:

* Conduct innovative research in AI ethics, including but not limited to data collection, AI evaluation and harm mitigation.

* Contribute to the development of tools and frameworks to assess and mitigate AI-related risks in natural language processing and computer vision, such as bias, privacy, copyright and transparency.

* Improve the performance of open models to detect and mitigate AI harms.

* Set up technical experiments to conduct evaluations of open models.

* Contribute to research with the potential for publication.

Qualifications

* Currently pursuing a degree (PhD preferred) in Computer Science or socio-technical AI topics.

* Strong foundations in AI and machine learning techniques in computer vision or natural language processing.

* Familiarity with generative AI evaluation, benchmarking, red-teaming or guardrail development.

* Experience using Python and deep learning libraries (e.g., PyTorch, HuggingFace Transformers) to develop, fine-tune, or evaluate generative AI models.

* Strong interest in AI ethics and responsible AI development.

* Proven research, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

* Self-motivated and capable of proposing and implementing innovative ideas.

* Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.

* Preferred: Experience with research communities, including having published papers at conferences/journals

Location: USA remote

Start date: 15 June 2026 or as agreed

Duration: 3 months

Apply by: 30 April 2026

Apply now and make an impact with the Sony AI Ethics Team!

The target hourly rate for this internship is $50.00 per hour. The individual will be paid hourly and eligible for overtime.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any basis protected by applicable federal, state, or local law, ordinance, or regulation.

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