| Active Inference Account of Belief Updating in PTSD | Develops a formal Active Inference account of belief updating in PTSD using predictive processing and free energy frameworks. |
| Active Inference Journal | A community publication and knowledge channel for Active Inference research and discussion. |
| Active Inference Ontology | Maintains and develops the public ontology for Active Inference and decentralized science with structured, machine-readable definitions. |
| Active Inference Textbook Development | Working group dedicated to creating and refining educational materials on Active Inference. Drafting chapters and preparing for publication. |
| AI²C: Active Inference Alignment Coalition | Multi-institution initiative building a research coalition, funding pipeline, and shared infrastructure for AI alignment, governance, and embodied experimentation. |
| AICACP | A coalition-oriented project at the intersection of AI capabilities and care practices. |
| Anima | Exploring Active Inference in the context of current LLM-based AI interactions and policy-based behavior. |
| 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 Symposium features research presentations, discussions, and collaborative sessions spanning computational neuroscience, AI, ecology, economics, health, and other domains. |
| Artificial Sentience | Exploring the conditions for and implications of sentience in artificial systems through an Active Inference lens. |
| 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. |
| CogNarr Ecosystem | Facilitating group cognition at scale through cognitive narrative infrastructure. |
| Cognitive Somatic Regulator | Active Inference modeling applied to somatic regulation, ethical threshold gating, and neuro-somatic dynamics. |
| Coherence Density: Measuring Coordination in Complex Adaptive Systems | A measurement-focused framework evaluating internal coordination and stability in complex adaptive systems. |
| Courses | Courses hosted at the Active Inference Institute |
| cpomdp — Continuous Active Inference for Python | A tested, documented continuous-state Active Inference Python library with certifiable tolerances and reference implementations. |
| Ed4All: Active Inference for Grounded Educational Knowledge Environments | An open, locally deployable, empirically evaluated framework for grounded educational agents that operate within explicit knowledge and evidentiary boundaries. |
| 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 learning backgrounds. |
| Educational Standards & Qualifications | Engagement pathways and learning initiatives at the Active Inference Institute for global learners at all levels. |
| Energy Modeling Human Brain Metabolism | Applying Active Inference to model metabolic energy dynamics in the human brain. |
| 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. |
| GEO-INFER | Geospatial modeling using Active Inference and spatial data analysis techniques. |
| Geometric Inquiry Theory | Geometric Inquiry Theory develops a geometric framework for understanding inquiry as a structured dynamic process through Q-State Dynamics and the structural basis of inquiry as a coherent mathematical theory. |
| Humanity's Story of an Uncertain Self | Ecosystem project developing a broad account of human self-knowledge as an inference problem through Active Inference and free energy. |
| Improving RxInfer.jl Model Visualization | Developing visualization capabilities for RxInfer.jl probabilistic models. |
| 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 knowledge systems. |
| Model-Centric Cognition | Developing the Wave Hypothesis and model-centric approaches to cognition and knowledge representation. |
| 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. |
| Numinia | Autonomous AI and educational adventure game grounded in Active Inference principles, where players and agents co-learn through play. |
| 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. |
| pymdp | Community Python library implementing Active Inference for POMDPs. |
| Regime-Dependent Active Inference: Addiction & Recovery Dynamics | Extending Active Inference with regime-dependent generative models to represent dynamic progressions in addiction, relapse, and recovery. |
| 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. |
| Seasonal School | An intensive in-person or online school for deep engagement with Active Inference theory, modeling, and applications. |
| Start | Scalable, Tailored Active Inference Research & Training — modular pipeline generating multilingual educational materials on Active Inference and the Free Energy Principle tailored to professional domains and individual learners. |
| Symbolic Cognitive Robotics | Symbolic Cognitive Robotics is an Ecosystem project applying Active Inference to robotic systems that combine symbolic reasoning with embodied action. |
| 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. |
| The Foundations of Ideology | Computational-neuroscience (FEP/Active Inference) framework for how political ideologies form, persist, and evolve. |
| 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 systems. |
| 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. |