Project Overview

The AI Objectives Institute is seeking humanities departments and researchers (PhD+) with research questions amenable to large-scale qualitative data collection and analysis.

We're looking for  partners who bring compelling research questions we can help answer through our AI qualitative data platform.

The AI Objectives Institute is seeking humanities departments and researchers with research questions amenable to large-scale qualitative data collection and analysis.

We're looking for  partners who bring compelling research questions we can help answer through our AI qualitative data platform

Ideal collaborations can include

• Projects requiring analysis across extensive historical corpora

• Fieldwork involving preposterous numbers of interviews

• Research questions in any of the following domains: language; linguistics; literature; history; comparative religion; the history, criticism and theory of the arts; and humanistic social sciences focused on human artefacts.

What we provide: Qualitative data collected and interpreted at speed and scale; collaborative design of AI systems tailored to your research methodology based off our successful Talk to The City platform . Collaborative arrangements would include substantial subaward support ($50k+).

Inquiry Process

Please submit an expression of interest by contacting the Talk to The City team with a short description of your research project.

About the AI Objectives Institute

The AI Objectives Institute is a nonprofit R&D lab decoding and realigning the incentives that shape AI futures. We study how to maximize the benefits of large-scale systems – including AI, markets, and bureaucracies – to advance humanity's interests. Founded by the late internet pioneer Dr. Peter Eckersley, the Institute brings together academics, scientists, economists, entrepreneurs, and government officials to conduct experiments, and design processes that promote better outcomes at the intersection of social systems and AI progress.