The BIIRGS AI² Fellowship invites cross-sector leaders, practitioners, researchers, and civic thinkers to explore one of the defining questions of our time: how artificial intelligence is reshaping the conditions for democratic life, digital wellbeing, institutional trust, and human flourishing.

The Fellowship applies technopsychology, an emerging line of inquiry within psychological science that examines technology not as a distant object or neutral tool, but as an active force woven into how people live, relate, decide, participate, and make meaning.

Through this lens, artificial intelligence becomes more than a technical development. It becomes a social, psychological, organizational, and civic condition shaping attention, agency, identity, behavior, power, and public life.

Delivered through scheduled online sessions, the twelve-week Fellowship combines shared core learning with specialist inquiry. Fellows engage in curated learning, critical reflection, cross-sector dialogue, and applied inquiry, with opportunities to examine how everyday technologies, platforms, infrastructures, information environments, and institutional systems shape the worlds people inhabit. Each Fellow is required to develop an individual applied capstone project and present it at the concluding virtual symposium.

The Fellowship centers on three focus areas: democratic wellbeing, digital wellbeing, and corporate influence. Across these domains, Fellows investigate how AI and related technologies mediate civic participation, digital culture, organizational responsibility, public trust, and systemic wellbeing.

As part of The BIIRGS global impact ecosystem, the Fellowship reflects the Institute’s role as an independent, trusted partner advancing better models for business and society through interdisciplinary psychological science, systems thinking, and applied public impact.

It sits under the AI² founding principle, Amplifying Interconnectedness & Advancing Innovation™, and serves as the public impact counterpart to the BIIRGS AI² Academy.

For prospective Fellows, the prospectus provides details on the program, participation expectations, and application process. Scroll down and select “Access the Fellowship Prospectus” to view it.