CHT Emerging Voices in AI and Society Fellowship 2026 ($30,000 stipend) – YOA

Deadline: July 12, 2026

Applications are open for the CHT Emerging Voices in AI and Society Fellowship 2026. Center for Humane Technology (CHT) is a nonprofit group whose mission is to realign essentially the most consequential applied sciences with humanity’s greatest pursuits. CHT works to make sense of how consequential applied sciences are impacting society — and what will be executed about it.

They interpret and deliver readability to a quick-shifting panorama, increase the questions that expertise forces us to confront, and join day-to-day harms to the deeper systemic incentives driving them. The position isn’t just to sound the alarm, however to raise the dialog, shaping the pressing concepts of our time, and to advance options so that folks really feel geared up to behave.

The newly-launched Emerging Voices in AI and Society Fellowship exists as a result of this work requires extra voices than CHT at present has. They have recognized 5 focus areas for candidates to select from and will select three fellows, representing distinctive focus areas, for the inaugural cohort. Applicants are welcome to apply for as much as two focus areas.

Focus Areas

• AI and Cognition
• AI and Relationships
• AI and Surveillance
• AI and Spirituality
• Inside the Machine: AI From a Technologist’s Perspective

Benefits

Fellows will obtain a $30,000 stipend based mostly on the completion of key milestones for this system. Additionally, fellows will obtain:

• Bi-weekly steering from the Senior Director of Strategy and Impact
• Light help from CHT’s Research Team 
• Editorial, communications, and graphic design help throughout deliverables
• Media coaching and media placement help through CHT’s PR company
• A CHT e mail deal with and entry to pick CHT Slack channels at some point of the fellowship
• Listing on CHT’s public fellows web page

Eligibility

The fellowship is open to candidates outdoors the United States. CHT is on the lookout for mid-profession specialists from interdisciplinary backgrounds with media expertise and pleasure to apply to the fellowship program. You may be:

• A researcher or junior school member in psychology, sociology, philosophy, cognitive science, communications, or science and expertise research who has been learning the human impacts of expertise
• A coverage analyst or former authorities official who has been engaged on AI governance, digital rights, or platform accountability
• A journalist or author who covers expertise and society
• A civil society advocate or organizer who has been engaged on tech accountability, digital rights, or group impacts of AI and brings the attitude of the folks most affected
• Someone who got here up contained in the tech business who has perception on how these techniques are constructed and what drives the selections behind them

You’re match for those who:

• Published op-eds, essays on Substack, or peer-reviewed work you can additionally clarify to a common viewers
• Have spoken at conferences the place your concepts attain folks outdoors your rapid subject
• Have an energetic on social media and are constructing a following round their concepts

Expectations

As part of the completion of the fellows program, fellows are anticipated to: 

• Complete one flagship output — a analysis piece, lengthy-kind essay, or report meant for public affect that might be leveraged throughout codecs (video, social, and so forth.)
• Write 1–3 op-eds positioned in goal shops and/or printed on CHT’s Substack
• Participate in one podcast episode on Your Undivided Attention or one other CHT platform, the place match
• Participate in CHT’s broader content material and media ecosystem
• Attend three necessary cohort conferences and necessary bi-weekly check-ins with the Senior Director of Strategy and Impact

Application

In order to apply, you will have to submit:

• A 1-2 web page analysis proposal for every matter (you might apply for as much as two) describing your proposed analysis, why the questions are price answering, and the way it aligns with CHT’s framing
• A CV or resume (2 pages max)
• A two-minute video recording of your self describing why you’re a good match for the place
• A writing pattern demonstrating analysis and evaluation (a paper, working paper, or weblog publish)

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to CHT Emerging Voices in AI and Society Fellowship.