BIIRGS AI²™ RESOURCES
Technopsychology Library
Why understanding technological change requires examining what technologies make possible, difficult, normal, and expected
Technologies become part of the environments through which people perceive, decide, learn, work, relate, and exercise agency. Technopsychology examines that interaction: how technological systems shape behavior and expectations, how people adapt in return, and how the conditions surrounding technology influence what those relationships become. This explainer introduces the framework anchoring BIIRGS AI²™ and its human-centered approach to technological change.
The AI Governance Gap
When AI deployment and advances in AI capability outpace the development of regulatory frameworks, accountability mechanisms, and public safeguards
AI is being deployed across work, public services, information environments, and everyday life while governance systems develop more slowly. Regulation remains fragmented, oversight capacity is uneven, and responsibility can become unclear when AI affects people’s rights, opportunities, and well-being. This resource examines the governance gap as a consequence of institutional choices and considers what meaningful accountability requires when safeguards lag behind deployment.
Who Shapes the Information Environment?
How media power, corporate influence, and AI mediation shape what reaches the public and what remains visible
Public understanding is shaped before any individual decides what to believe. Ownership, funding, commercial incentives, editorial independence, platforms, search, and recommendation systems all influence how information is produced, distributed, and encountered. As AI increasingly mediates search, news discovery, summarization, and access to information, a new layer of influence is emerging. This resource explores how media capture, corporate power, and algorithmic mediation can shape information visibility, pluralism, and the conditions under which people form judgments.
Working with Intelligence
What happens to critical thinking, judgment, and expertise when intelligent systems can do more of the cognitive work
AI is entering a world where literacy, comprehension, and problem-solving capabilities are already uneven. These systems can widen access to knowledge, reduce barriers, and support difficult cognitive tasks, but better performance with assistance is not necessarily the same as stronger independent capability. This resource explores how AI is changing reading, reasoning, writing, learning, and professional judgment, and what helps people use intelligent systems while continuing to build, exercise, and verify their own understanding.
Impact Initiatives
BIIRGS develops public-impact initiatives that translate interdisciplinary psychological science into practical action across social, technological, and environmental systems.
Through research, learning, dialogue, and applied experimentation, these initiatives build new models for wellbeing, resilience, responsible innovation, and long-term public benefit.
