Human intelligence involves many dimensions: we interact socially, learn quickly from other people, and determine how tasks ...

Conversations about AI seem to have infused every field of inquiry, but are those conversations focused enough to be productive? “Because AI is like a giant octopus with tentacles going everywhere, ...

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).

SFI External Professor Santiago Elena has been elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology. The American Academy of Microbiology is the honorific leadership group within the American ...

Think of the economy as a giant web where every person, company, and country is linked. When something big happens — a pandemic, the rise of artificial intelligence, or a climate-driven disaster — it ...

Whenever an authority has influence over a population — be it a social media platform moderating user comments, a government imposing laws on its citizens, or an employer placing restrictions on ...

Collaborations in Artificial Intelligence and Geosciences (CAIG) — NSF 25-530 The Collaborations in Artificial Intelligence and Geosciences (CAIG) program seeks to advance the development and adoption ...

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 ...

Every task we perform on our computer — whether number crunching, watching a video, or typing out an article — requires different components of the machine to interact with one another. "Communication ...

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 ...

An Introduction to Ergodicity Economics is a new textbook that draws on physics to re-examine traditional economic theory. It begins with flipping a coin. And a hypothetical gambit. Imagine you were ...

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 ...