Estratégia

Visão e Missão

Visão. Um mundo onde a inferência ativa — um framework de comportamento adaptativo baseado em princípios fundamentais — seja conhecida, ensinada e aplicada em ciência, engenharia e na vida cotidiana.

Nossas Valores e Princípios

Estamos comprometidos em promover uma cultura de excelência, colaboração e inovação. Nossos valores e princípios servem como princípios orientadores que moldam nossa Estratégia e definem o caráter de nossa organização.

Educação

At the participant scale, we approach a participant's Active Inference mastery as a system of interest. To reflect a plurality of individual priors, expertise levels, and preferences, we develop different educational formats — workshops, discussion groups, online courses, project-based learning, internships, and more — and our preference is to have up to a thousand participants involved in education.

At the Institute scale, the organization learns state-of-the-art ways of working and practices across functional domains to build and strengthen organizational capabilities. At the ecosystem scale, the Institute works on education and on reducing research debt for a broad community, developing public video and audio content to spread Active Inference and aiming to reach tens of thousands of people with it.

Pesquisa

At the participant scale, we provide affordances to scaffold and launch research and development projects by participants; projects can be driven by participants inside or outside the organization, and the Institute provides relevant support, with the expectation of dozens of research outcomes such as papers and workshop and conference presentations. At the Institute scale, the organization arranges, catalyzes, and participates in Active Inference research projects with long-term impact or public-goods features — such as ontology development and knowledge engineering — and events like symposiums and conferences.

At the ecosystem scale, we recognize and seek to carry out, apply, and improve upon research practices from open science.

Atividades e Envolvimento

At the participant scale, we think of participants as ambassadors of the Institute, and we welcome and support their initiatives to share a voice about Active Inference across situations and communities. At the Institute scale, we aim to set up partnerships with other organizations from academia, industry, and beyond, supporting high-quality science communication, education, and collaboration around research topics such as Active Inference.

At the ecosystem scale, we acknowledge the diversity of people's initial conditions — familiarity with language, science, philosophy, and computation — and we develop the Active Inference online journal and create popular-science content for different social media.

Métodos

At the participant scale, we educate participants so they grow their expertise across disciplines; because disciplinary expertise entails competency in practices and tools, we take a holistic approach to participant professional development. At the Institute scale, continuous organizational evolution is our fundamental effort — the Institute seeks to obtain and use the most advanced expertise in all practices, applying Active Inference, Systems Thinking, and other first-principles approaches to its own operations.

At the ecosystem scale, we share and promote the methods we use through the community to increase the quality and efficiency of collaborations, and we remain open to recommendations for new methods and strategies to consider.

Materiais completos

Esta página apresenta a estratégia atual da Instituição em Educação, Pesquisa, Ação Social e Métodos. As prioridades e planejamento específicos de tempo — e a revisão periódica da Estratégia, Missão, Visão, Valores e Princípios — são mantidos no hub de estratégia e estão sendo progressivamente migrados para este site.