Technopsychology Impact Initiative
BIIRGS AI² Fellowship
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 track-based virtual pathways, the Fellowship ranges from 8 to 12 weeks, depending on the selected track. 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.
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.
Exploring Human-Technology Interaction Across Public Life
Where Curiosity and Applied Learning Reimagine Systemic Wellbeing
The BIIRGS AI² Fellowship Model
The Fellowship is designed as an applied inquiry model for people engaging the human and systemic questions emerging at the intersection of artificial intelligence, psychology, institutions, and public life.
Fellows move through a curated learning pathway that brings interdisciplinary concepts into conversation with real-world contexts. The experience is intended for participants who are curious, reflective, ethically grounded, and committed to learning across difference. It is not limited to people in technical AI roles.
The Fellowship works across three applied inquiry areas:
Democratic Wellbeing in the Age of AI (Technological Mediation)
Digital Wellbeing in the Age of AI (Embodiment)
Corporate Influence in the Age of AI (Materiality)
Participation is offered at no cost to selected applicants through sponsor funded and regional sponsorship pathways. Fellows complete the program with an applied capstone and join the BIIRGS AI²™ Fellowship Alumni Network, contributing to a growing community of inquiry, learning, and public impact.
The Fellowship welcomes applicants across journalism, public policy, technology, civil society, education, health, research, creative industries, organizational leadership, and adjacent fields. Strong applicants bring intellectual curiosity, openness to interdisciplinary learning, a commitment to ethical public impact, and a desire to apply the Fellowship experience within their field, institution, or community.
Applications open August 2026.