In June, three SFI Faculty members participated in panel discussions at the National Judicial Summit on the Foundation and ...

Present-day LLMs, such as ChatGPT and Claude, can perform complex tasks, such as writing poetry and solving difficult algebra ...

Last fall, SFI External Professor John Krakauer was named director of the Centre for Restorative Neurotechnology (CRN) — a ...

Most people favor one hand, and that hand tends to be the better one at writing, at throwing, at managing chopsticks. The ...

Jim Rutt, SFI Trustee Emeritus and Distinguished Fellow, passed away on May 27, 2026, at age 72. Rutt was an active member of ...

Meeting Description: Claude Shannon’s landmark 1948 paper, “A Mathematical Theory of Communication”, took the radical step of defining information in a manner that completely eliminated meaning from ...

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 ...

Global markets are complex systems, shaped by feedback loops, sudden shocks, and adaptive behavior that rarely follow textbook rules and that can’t be captured by neat equations. At its core, ...

A mystery novel, a history book, and a fantasy epic may have little in common in plot or style. But count the words inside them and a strange regularity appears: many new words show up early, then ...

Colloquium- Henry Farrell ... Abstract TBA ...

For nearly a century, scientists from a diverse set of fields have been captured by questions about the origins of life. How did life, in all of its complexity, arise from comparatively simple matter?