socius labs began as 'socialscience.ai', exploring how artificial intelligence could advance social science research. The initial vision was straightforward. To bring AI tools to social scientists, help them analyse data, accelerate their research. But the work revealed something unexpected. The most interesting discoveries came from reversing the question. Instead of AI serving social science, what if the disciplines that studied us (human) could advance machine intelligence? Today, socius labs exists to explore this convergence. As an independent research lab supported by the LSE and LSE Generate, we run experiments between every field that studied thinking and every machine trying to think.