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

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

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

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

Facilitating group cognition at scale through cognitive narrative infrastructure.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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: 9 completed cohorts on the 2022 textbook since 2022, plus a first cohort now live on the 20

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.

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

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