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Action Research on Collective Foraging (Negotiation Affordances) applies Active Inference to collective foraging behavior — studying how groups form coalitions,

Active Inference examples and tools for decentralized and blockchain-adjacent systems

Framework bridging centralized and decentralized science approaches using Active Inference principles for scientific organization and governance.

Multiagent modeling of collective behavior using Active Inference, with connections to ant colony research.

Develops a formal Active Inference account of belief updating in PTSD using predictive processing and free energy frameworks.

Modeling human translation processes using Active Inference agent architectures.

A reflective book project applying Active Inference as a framework for self-knowledge and personal development.

Apply Active Inference to designing, managing, and evolving built environments that prioritize the flourishing of all life, via distributed intelligence and dig

Develops courses, curricula, research, and writing connecting Active Inference to social sciences disciplines.

A community publication and knowledge channel for Active Inference research and discussion.

Maintains and develops the public ontology for Active Inference and decentralized science with structured, machine-readable definitions.

Multi-institution initiative building a research coalition, funding pipeline, and shared infrastructure for AI alignment, governance, and embodied experimentati

A coalition-oriented project at the intersection of AI capabilities and care practices.

Exploring Active Inference in the context of current LLM-based AI interactions and policy-based behavior.

The Applied Active Inference Symposium is a yearly event that convenes the global Active Inference community. It has run five times from 2021 through 2025, with

Exploring the conditions for and implications of sentience in artificial systems through an Active Inference lens.

Audio-Visual Production is a sustained Institute project responsible for planning, recording, and publishing the Institute's livestreams, podcasts, video events

Active Inference systems for bedside clinical waveform monitoring applying the free energy framework to real-time EEG, ECG, and physiological signals.

Facilitating group cognition at scale through cognitive narrative infrastructure.

Developing minimal cognitive agent models using Active Inference principles.

This Ecosystem project develops accounts of creativity and creative agents under the Free Energy Principle — examining how generative models and free energy min

Tuesday Discord sessions on digital agents and Active Inference.

An open, locally deployable, empirically evaluated framework for grounded educational agents that operate within explicit knowledge and evidentiary boundaries.

Educational Course Development is a sustained Institute project producing structured courses in Active Inference and related topics, maintaining an Obsidian rep

Applying Active Inference to model metabolic energy dynamics in the human brain.

FarmWorks develops miniature Active Inference models and applications for agricultural and ecological contexts.

Studying Friedrich Froebel's pedagogical system through Active Inference and integral studies.

Deploying Active Inference and AI to automate robotic microscopy and manage soil biology at scale.

Ecosystem project supporting the development and dissemination of the Fundamentals of Active Inference textbook — a comprehensive introduction to Active Inferen

A text-based notation system for communicating generative models and Active Inference systems that provides a shared language for describing models in a human-r

Geospatial modeling using Active Inference and spatial data analysis techniques.

Geometric Inquiry Theory develops a geometric framework for understanding inquiry as a structured dynamic process through Q-State Dynamics and the structural ba

A graphical interface project for Active Inference modeling and visualization.

Ecosystem project developing open-source tools for graph-based communication and knowledge representation.

Ecosystem project developing a broad account of human self-knowledge as an inference problem through Active Inference and free energy.

Developing visualization capabilities for RxInfer.jl probabilistic models.

Knowledge Engineering develops and maintains the public knowledge infrastructure for the Active Inference Institute, including the public frontend, literature m

HDPLS-TARS is a speculative Ecosystem project testing the limits of M-Theory through hyper-dimensional field interconnections and prismatic light scattering dyn

Exploring profound connections between mathematics and the arts through collaborative conversation.

Developing the Wave Hypothesis and model-centric approaches to cognition and knowledge representation.

Rigorous exploration of humanity's capacity for symbolic intelligence by modeling norms across social and identity scales to develop culturally-aligned artifici

Active Inference learning resources and sessions tailored for neurodivergent participants, building curriculum and community structures for autistic, ADHD, and

Autonomous AI and educational adventure game grounded in Active Inference principles, where players and agents co-learn through play.

Formalize a minimal computational architecture that models internal coherence dynamics for AI alignment through latent generative perspective structures.

A course connecting physics, thermodynamics, and the theoretical foundations of Active Inference.

Develops a framework for solving the Tower of Babel Problem through UniFysica Philo-sophia, a universal conceptual bridge for cross-domain knowledge communicati

Applies Active Inference principles to understanding and improving human-animal relationships through alignment and trust-building.

Community Python library implementing Active Inference for POMDPs.

The RxInfer.jl Learning and Development Group supports learning and extending RxInfer.jl, a Julia package for reactive Bayesian inference.

An intensive in-person or online school for deep engagement with Active Inference theory, modeling, and applications.

Scalable, Tailored Active Inference Research & Training — modular pipeline generating multilingual educational materials on Active Inference and the Free Energy

Symbolic Cognitive Robotics is an Ecosystem project applying Active Inference to robotic systems that combine symbolic reasoning with embodied action.

Structured cohort-based learning through Active Inference textbooks, with 5.5 completed cohorts since 2022.

Bridging psychoanalytic theory and Active Inference through the economic perspective of psychoanalytic theory.

Computational-neuroscience (FEP/Active Inference) framework for how political ideologies form, persist, and evolve.

Science communication livestream making scientific information accessible to people without a scientific background.

Studies universal basic income through Active Inference modeling and simulation using token economics, policy simulation, and behavioral modeling.

Monthly sessions cross-referencing biblical verses with a focus on inter-faith and contemporary perspective dialogue, connecting active inference to process the

The Theoretical Neurobiology Group (TNB) supports theoretical work connecting Active Inference to neurobiology with regular meetings and discussions for mathema

The Video Improvement Project focuses on enhancing the quality, organization, and accessibility of the Institute's extensive video library — covering hundreds o

Series of livestreams and papers by Robert Worden on the brain wave hypothesis, projective wave theory of consciousness, and Bayesian model-based cognition.