DARPA is soliciting responses for a Request for Information (RFI) related to our Human Dimension 2025 and Beyond theme. Please see details below and attachment.
RFI: New Capabilities for Experimental Falsifiability in Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences
"The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Defense Sciences Office (DSO) is requesting information on and suggestions for research to develop novel methods, including new tools, platforms, techniques, and/or approaches, that could contribute to the development of unprecedented capabilities for testing the experimental falsifiability of (i.e., disconfirming) models, theories, and hypotheses in social, behavioral and economic (SBE) sciences."
"DARPA/DSO is interested in methods that ultimately advance efforts to test different theories and models at new scales to identify reliable and robust “first principles” of emergent behaviors and state transitions in different kinds of human social systems. Being able to identify any such first principles could significantly improve our understanding of the properties of resilient and adaptive social systems, i.e., systems that are likely to promote cooperation and coordination over conflict, and that are most effective at solving problems or distributing scarce resources."
Here is a link to the RFI: https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=c5f4210eb10ece263d3510f99472badc&tab=core&_cview=0