| Active Inference Journal |
A community publication and knowledge channel for Active Inference research and discussion. |
Academic Publishing, Active Inference, Collaborative Editing, Community, Decentralized Science |
Alexander Vyatkin Holly Grimm |
| Active Inference Ontology |
Maintains and develops the public ontology for Active Inference and decentralized science with structured, machine-readable definitions. |
Active Inference, Decentralized Science, Eduactive, Formal Knowledge, Formal Logic |
Daniel Friedman |
| AI²C: Active Inference Alignment Coalition |
Multi-institution initiative building a research coalition, funding pipeline, and shared infrastructure for AI alignment, governance, and embodied experimentation. |
Ai Alignment, Active Inference, Multi Agent Systems, Governance Frameworks, Embodied Systems |
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| AICACP |
A coalition-oriented project at the intersection of AI capabilities and care practices. |
Active Inference, Agency, Ai Alignment, Ai Capabilities, Ai Regulation |
Adam Safron |
| Applied Active Inference Symposium |
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 the sixth symposium in 2026. The Sympos |
Active Inference, Ai, Artificial Intelligence, Collaborative Sessions, Community Building |
Daniel Friedman |
| Audio-Visual Production |
Audio-Visual Production is a sustained Institute project responsible for planning, recording, and publishing the Institute's livestreams, podcasts, video events, and educational recordings. |
Audio Visual Production, Eduactive, Educational Content, Livestreams, Media Production |
Daniel Friedman |
| Educational Course Development |
Educational Course Development is a sustained Institute project producing structured courses in Active Inference and related topics, maintaining an Obsidian repository and course catalog for diverse l |
Active Inference, Course Development, Curriculum, Eduactive, Education |
Daniel Friedman |
| Generalized Notation Notation |
A text-based notation system for communicating generative models and Active Inference systems that provides a shared language for describing models in a human-readable and machine-processable way. |
Active Inference, Cognitive Modeling, Formal Modeling, Generative Models, Interoperability |
Daniel Friedman |
| GEO-INFER |
Geospatial modeling using Active Inference and spatial data analysis techniques. |
Active Inference, Agent Systems, Bayesian Methods, Bioregional Modeling, Ecology |
Daniel Friedman |
| Knowledge Engineering |
Knowledge Engineering develops and maintains the public knowledge infrastructure for the Active Inference Institute, including the public frontend, literature meta-analysis, and organizational knowled |
Active Inference, Annotation, Free Energy Principle, Information Science, Knowledge Engineering |
Virginia Bleu Knight Daniel Friedman |
| Myth of Objectivity Hypothesis |
Rigorous exploration of humanity's capacity for symbolic intelligence by modeling norms across social and identity scales to develop culturally-aligned artificial general intelligence. |
Active Inference, Artificial Intelligence, Morality, Symbolic Cognition, Cultural Evolution |
Shagor (Shaggy) Rahman |
| Perspective Architectures for Coherent and Attuned Artificial Agency |
Formalize a minimal computational architecture that models internal coherence dynamics for AI alignment through latent generative perspective structures. |
Ai Alignment, Agency, Perspective Taking, Emergent Coherence, Multi Agent Systems |
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| RxInfer.jl Learning and Development Group |
The RxInfer.jl Learning and Development Group supports learning and extending RxInfer.jl, a Julia package for reactive Bayesian inference. |
Active Inference, Bayesian Inference, Community Driven, Education, Julia |
Daniel Friedman |
| Seasonal School |
An intensive in-person or online school for deep engagement with Active Inference theory, modeling, and applications. |
Active Inference, Cohort Based, Community, Community Engagement, Eduactive |
Daniel Friedman |
| Start |
Scalable, Tailored Active Inference Research & Training — modular pipeline generating multilingual educational materials on Active Inference and the Free Energy Principle tailored to professional doma |
Active Inference, Education, Curriculum, Multilingual, Learning Paths |
Daniel Friedman |
| Textbook Group |
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 2026 Fundamentals textbook. |
Active Inference, Cohort Learning, Collaborative Learning, Eduactive, Education |
Daniel Friedman |
| The Foundations of Ideology |
Computational-neuroscience (FEP/Active Inference) framework for how political ideologies form, persist, and evolve. |
Political Ideology, Computational Neuroscience, Free Energy Principle, Active Inference, Prediction Error |
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| Theoretical Neurobiology Group |
The Theoretical Neurobiology Group (TNB) supports theoretical work connecting Active Inference to neurobiology with regular meetings and discussions for mathematical and conceptual models of neural sy |
Active Inference, Cognitive Science, Computational Modeling, Consciousness, Free Energy Principle |
Daniel Friedman |
| Wave Hypothesis |
Series of livestreams and papers by Robert Worden on the brain wave hypothesis, projective wave theory of consciousness, and Bayesian model-based cognition. |
Brain Waves, Consciousness, Wave Hypothesis, Bayesian Cognition, Theoretical Neuroscience |
Robert Worden |