2022 Quarterly Roundtable #3

Welcome everyone. This is the Active Inference Institute Quarterly Roundtable number 3 in 2022. It is September 28th, 2022. Welcome to the Active Inference Institute. The Active Inference Institute is dedicated to learning, researching, and applying active inference. You can find us at some of the links here on this slide. This is recorded and an archived live stream. So please provide us with feedback so we can be improving our work. All backgrounds and perspectives are welcome and we'll be following video etiquette for live streams. Today in the quarterly live stream number 3, we are going to have three broad sections. They won't be too long. There will be a lot of time if you want to add any other notes in the live chat or maybe even if anybody wants to say hi in the live chat and join the live stream itself. We're going to first have Institute scale updates. We'll talk about some changes in development at the Institute level. We'll then talk about projects and the education and research endeavors that we've been involved in and that I've been developing over this quarter. And then we'll close with some next steps and affordances for getting involved. Let's go first to the Active Inference Institute, AII updates at the Institute scale. All right. I'll just give some overview and then Alex or Yvonne, feel free to add more. We're continuing to work with Freed Frank in a pro bono capacity to help with the legal side of formalizing our incorporation as a nonprofit. We are formalized in terms of what members we have, our five founding members and some of our governance structures. Currently we are on the stage of selecting and electing the board of directors. So at this point, at the end of September, 2022, we are extremely actively seeking self nominations as well as suggestions for people who might like to serve in the board of directors, especially with expertise or experience serving on board of directors for nonprofits and any other relevant experience related to governance, financial, nonprofit education and research. Following the selection of the board of directors, the board will then select officers who are in more of a direct operations role at the Institute. And we've also joined the Delaware Alliance for Nonprofit Advancement, Dana, to provide us with access to nonprofit resources and support. Alex or Yvonne want to give any comments? If you're talking Alex, you're muted, but I see yellow. Okay. Okay. Carrying forward. We are continuing to develop our Institute branding. First, we are working with some external expertise on some logo and brand redesigns for the Institute. This is really exciting and more will be announced when the work here is ready to be shown. So enjoy the black, white and red and the current fonts and layouts that we have while you can. They'll still be there. They'll still be around. And we've also updated our website with a restructured short description of the Institute, which I'll just read now. And then Alex or Yvonne, please make any extra comment or provide any context. The Active Inference Institute is dedicated to learning, researching and applying active inference. We provide avenues for connection and integration with broad audiences and disciplines. The Active Inference Institute provides a setting for people to aid each other in pursuit of a better understanding of active inference. The Institute organizes education, research and communication to advance the progress and public awareness of frontier knowledge in active inference and closely related topics. We structure our strategy with the building blocks of participatory open science, accessibility and service to our epistemic community. The Institute of Research and Research and Research and Research and Research and Research Yes, sure. As an institution, we are educated to have an understanding in a broad audience about active inference. is it what how we can use it and as we know that active inference is applicable for a lot of…