<div><h3>Program Overview</h3><p>Center for Humane Technology (CHT) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to realign the most consequential technologies with humanity’s best interests. CHT works to make sense of how consequential technologies are impacting society — and what can be done about it. We interpret and bring clarity to a fast-moving landscape, raise the questions that technology forces us to confront, and connect day-to-day harms to the deeper systemic incentives driving them. Our role is not just to sound the alarm, but to elevate the conversation, shaping the urgent ideas of our time, and to advance solutions so that people feel equipped to act.</p><p>Our newly launched <em>Emerging Voices in AI and Society Fellowship</em> exists because this work requires more voices than CHT currently has. We have identified five focus areas for applicants to choose from and will choose three fellows, representing unique focus areas, for our inaugural cohort. Applicants are welcome to apply for up to two focus areas.</p><h3>Key Details</h3><ul><li><p>Fellowship Size: 3 Fellows (pilot cohort)</p></li><li><p>Duration: 6 months, beginning Sept 14, 2026 through March 18, 2017</p></li><li><p>Commitment: 15 hours a week, 10 hours overlapping with EST, remote</p></li><li><p>Compensation: Fixed stipend of $30,000 paid based on the completion of three milestones </p></li><li><p>Application Deadline: Sunday, July 12 11:59pm EST</p></li></ul></div><h3>Available Focus Areas</h3><ul><div><li><h3>AI and Cognition</h3></li><li><p>As AI tools become embedded in how we learn, work, and make decisions, fundamental questions about human cognition are coming into focus. At the heart of this is a simple question: is AI more like a calculator — a tool that extends what we can do without fundamentally changing how we think — or is it something qualitatively different? AI may enable us to do more, but does it actually improve our thinking? What happens to judgment, critical thinking, and intellectual independence when entire thinking processes can be offloaded to machines? Does it matter which cognitive tasks we delegate, and which we retain? Is the same true of adults versus kids? What does it actually mean to think, and where does the boundary between human cognition and machine assistance begin to blur? When hundreds of millions of people rely on the same small set of models, what does that mean for the diversity of thought at scale? What aspects of human cognition are critical to retain? <br><br>CHT is seeking a fellow to help build rigorous understanding of these questions — bringing empirical, philosophical, or interdisciplinary perspective to bear on what AI is actually doing to human cognition, and what that means for individuals and society over time.</p></li><li><h3>AI and Relationships</h3></li><li><p>Human relationships are not just a source of comfort — they are the primary arena in which we develop empathy, navigate conflict, build trust, and become c