A team of SFI and SFI-adjacent people—legal scholars, legal practitioners, and computer scientists—are presenting on AI in the Justice System at a National ...

All of biology is transient. Over time, a population of identical cells can change so that some subgroups exhibit different ...

In the last decade, a phenomenon in artificial intelligence known as “double descent” has surprised researchers who study learning. The expectation was that the best AI models were neither too simple ...

Human intelligence involves many dimensions: we interact socially, learn quickly from other people, and determine how tasks fit together, as well as physically interact with and intervene in the real ...

The brain runs on about 15 to 20 watts, less than most light bulbs, but has still managed to evolve a voracious appetite for energy. In humans, it accounts for only about one-fiftieth of weight but ...

SFI External Professor Laurent Hébert-Dufresne (University of Vermont) has been named the 2026 recipient of the Young Scientist Award for Socio- and Econophysics by the German Physical Society (DPG).

In a recent paper, SFI Professor David Wolpert, SFI Fractal Faculty member Carlo Rovelli, and physicist Jordan Scharnhorst examine a long-standing, paradoxical thought experiment in statistical ...

The simulation hypothesis — the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer — has long captured the public imagination. Yet most arguments about it ...

From Beowulf to Pride and Prejudice to the classic sitcom Friends, all stories share a common purpose: to convey knowledge about how to navigate the world. “Stories are everywhere,” says SFI External ...

In his biography of Elon Musk, historian Walter Isaacson describes a game of Texas Hold ‘Em poker in which Musk went all in — on every hand. “Isaacson uses the anecdote to show that Elon Musk is a ...

10/14/2025 Seminar "On the Origin of New Genes in Biological Evolution" by Andreas Wagner, University of Zurich; SFI 10/21/2025 Community Lecture "Transmission Versus Truth: What Will It Take to Make ...