Interest in artificial intelligence is driving a proliferation of research into the nature of intelligence. Researchers at ...

In March, SFI External Professor Aaron Clauset (University of Colorado Boulder) received two notable honors: he was elected a ...

SFI External Professor Laurent Hébert-Dufresne (University of Vermont) is the 2026 recipient of the Erdős-Rényi Prize, the ...

Pathogen emergence is a complex multifactorial phenomenon that poses a major threat to public health. To date, the underlying molecular mechanisms and ecological drivers controlling this non-linear ...

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 ...

1:30–2:00 PM Welcome, Introduction, AI and Multiscale Summary. Will Tracy (SFI) and Allison Stanger (SFI / Middlebury). 2:00–4:00 PM Session 1 — The Problem from the University Perspective.

Speakers Allison StangerProfessor of International Politics + Economics at Middlebury College; Science Board Member + External Professor at SFI William TracyVice President for Applied Complexity, SFI ...

“. . . the true heir to Melville and Faulkner." —Harold Bloom, literary critic. "Today feels to me like a terrible disaster where many of us lost a good friend, the Santa Fe Institute lost one of its ...

The SFI Press releases two updated editions — The Quark & the Jaguar and Strange Beauty — by and about SFI co-founder Murray Gell-Mann. The opening lines of Homer’s Odyssey describe its eponymous hero ...

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 ...

David Pines, a central figure in understanding the elemental properties of condensed matter and who played a major role in birthing complexity science and founding the Santa Fe Institute, passed away ...

The sudden emergence of witch trials in early modern Europe may have been fueled by one of humanity's most significant intellectual milestones: the invention of the printing press in 1450. “Cities ...