Work With Us
The right collaboration has a quality of recognition.
It is not only strategic fit, though strategy matters.
It is the sense that two bodies of work are already speaking to the same future from different positions, and that something more precise becomes possible when they meet.
Inner Technology is a field we are building together
We welcome spontaneous applications from people who feel strongly aligned with what we are building, as well as proposals from researchers, practitioners, institutions, students and collaborators who see a meaningful point of intersection with their own work.
We are particularly interested in people working across human development, psychology, AI and society, culture, education, public policy, research, communication and the creative industries.
You do not need to wait for us to publish a job description to introduce yourself.
If you believe there is a genuine reason we should know one another, we would like to hear from you.
Spontaneous Applications
If you think you belong here, tell us why.
We welcome spontaneous applications even when no formal role is advertised.
Rather than sending a generic application, tell us:
who you are
what you are exceptionally good at
what part of our work interests you
where you believe you could contribute
whether you are proposing paid work, volunteering, academic collaboration or another form of partnership
what kind of commitment you realistically have available
Links to relevant work, research, publications, projects or portfolios are very welcome.
We cannot promise that every introduction will lead to an immediate collaboration.
But we do keep track of people whose work and thinking feel relevant to where the Institute is going.
A note on volunteer work
We believe volunteer participation should be meaningful, transparent and appropriately bounded.
Volunteer roles are designed around specific projects, learning opportunities, research contribution or shared public-interest goals. They are not intended to replace permanent paid positions or ongoing professional work that should reasonably be compensated.
As the Institute grows, so will the number of paid commissions, project roles and longer-term opportunities we are able to create.
There are many ways to help build a field.
You can research it.
Question it.
Test it.
Teach it.
Document it.
Bring it into another discipline.
Introduce it into an institution.
Challenge its assumptions.
Or help us discover something we have not yet thought to ask.
If you see a meaningful point of connection, we would like to hear from you.
Some of the Institute’s work also welcomes carefully scoped volunteer participation.
We currently see the greatest potential for meaningful contribution in three areas.
I LOVE MY AI
Help us investigate what happens to humanity when intelligence is no longer uniquely human.
I LOVE MY AI is our documentary and research project exploring the human consequences of increasingly capable artificial intelligence.
The project brings together questions of psychology, technology, culture, relationships, creativity, education, work and what humans may need to cultivate in ourselves as machines become capable of doing more.
Volunteer contributions may include:
research and source mapping
contributor and expert research
archival research
interview preparation
production assistance
fact checking and reference work
audience and cultural research
festival, institutional and impact research
documentation and knowledge organisation
We are especially interested in students and early-career researchers who would like to contribute to a serious interdisciplinary project while working alongside a developing international network of thinkers and practitioners.
Research & Public Knowledge
Help turn important knowledge into something people can actually use.
Inner Technology sits between disciplines.
Questions about attention, embodiment, emotional regulation, creativity, discernment, metacognition, relational intelligence and human agency are already being studied across psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, education, sociology, design and technology.
Too often, those conversations remain separated from one another.
One of the Institute’s roles is to connect them.
Volunteers and research collaborators may contribute to:
literature and evidence reviews
research mapping
annotated bibliographies
emerging-field scans
case studies
research summaries
public educational resources
white papers and briefings
our growing Inner Technology knowledge base
This work is particularly suited to university students, doctoral candidates, researchers, psychologists, therapists, educators and people with strong research or synthesis skills.
The objective is not to produce more information.
It is to make important knowledge clearer, more connected and more useful.
Public Dialogue & Institutional Partnerships
Help bring the conversation into the rooms where the future is being shaped.
Inner Technology is not intended to remain a conversation inside the Institute.
We want these questions discussed in universities, schools, cultural institutions, companies, public agencies, research environments and policy spaces.
We welcome people who can help us create those bridges.
This may include:
identifying relevant institutions and initiatives
university and research outreach
policy and public-sector mapping
partnership development
seminar and event development
speaker and expert outreach
international network building
educational collaborations
public conversations around AI and human capacity
For us, impact means more than publishing ideas.
It means helping those ideas enter the places where decisions, education, culture and future systems are being shaped.
Collaborate With Us
You do not have to work for the Institute to work with the Institute.
Some of the most interesting work happens between disciplines, professions and institutions.
We actively welcome conversations with:
Professors and researchers
Interested in interdisciplinary research, joint inquiries, expert contribution, teaching, supervision, research partnerships or the emerging field of Inner Technology.
Universities and students
Interested in student projects, thesis work, internships, research assistance, seminars, field studies or collaborations across psychology, AI, humanities, design, education and social sciences.
Psychologists, psychotherapists and other practitioners
Interested in contributing professional knowledge about human development, emotional regulation, embodiment, relationships, behaviour and psychological adaptation.
AI researchers, technologists and futurists
Interested in examining not only what artificial intelligence can do, but what its development may require from human beings and human institutions.
Policymakers and public institutions
Exploring education, public health, culture, work, technological transition, democratic resilience, human capability or the societal implications of AI.
Artists, writers, filmmakers and cultural practitioners
Interested in how technological change is altering identity, imagination, authorship, intimacy, creativity and culture.
Educators and learning organisations
Interested in the human capacities young people and adults may increasingly need in an AI-shaped world.
Foundations, organisations and mission-aligned partners
Interested in supporting research, public knowledge, documentary work, education or interdisciplinary dialogue around human development and technological change.
We are equally open to people whose work does not fit neatly into one of these categories.
New fields rarely emerge from tidy boundaries.
Imagination as Adaptive Capacity
Imagination is not escape from reality. It is the human capacity to rehearse uncertainty before uncertainty arrives.
The Body in the Loop
Human judgment is situated. As digital systems expand, the body has to remain part of how people and institutions know what they are doing.
Conflict as Developmental Infrastructure
Conflict does not automatically make people wiser. Under the right conditions, it can become one of the ways a system learns.
The Second Enlightenment
The next Enlightenment must preserve reason while widening its field of responsibility to include embodiment, emotion, ecology, and consequence.
The Future Human
The future human is not defined by outperforming machines, but by deepening what machines do not live.
Why Inner Technology Matters for Civilization
Advanced tools do not determine the future by themselves. Their effects depend on the human and institutional capacities that hold them.
Beyond Economic Growth
Progress in the AI age must measure what people, institutions, and ecosystems are becoming capable of sustaining.
A Civilization Worth Building
The deepest question of the AI century is not what can be built, but what should be built, by whom, for whom, and what kind of humans we become in the building.