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Societal Impacts Research on AI (SIRA)
On LessWrong, emiliob announces Societal Impacts Research on AI (SIRA), a mentored fellowship to bring social scientists into AI safety. The post seeks a first cohort of 15 to 20 people, projected to start in summer 2027, and argues that social science needs to study AI's effects before they have fully arrived.
Why it matters
The same thing, for different readers.
For researchers
emiliob wants social scientists studying AI's effects on people and institutions now, rather than catching up afterwards.
The question it raises
emiliob compares AI to the Industrial Revolution and argues that the social sciences risk always explaining change only after it has happened.
The record
- Questions
- How is AI changing childhood, health and daily life? · What happens to work, income and the economy?
- People
- emiliob (Wrote it)
- What we read
- We have read only the description the publisher gives. No quotations until someone reads the source itself.
- Found by
- The Radar, run of October 24, 2026, via
lesswrong(tier 1: the source’s own channel or an official record) - Cite this
- LessWrong, “Societal Impacts Research on AI (SIRA)”, October 24, 2026. Entry in the Ctrl AI Base, https://ctrlai.com/base/lesswrong-2026-10-24-sira-social-science-fellowship
Our notesLight lane: excerpt only. Author known by forum handle; no funder or host organization is named in the excerpt.