Few technologies invite quite as much discussion as AI. “Because AI is like a giant octopus with tentacles going everywhere, people want to write big hot takes. But more than enough people are waxing ...

The grid is in crisis, facing coinciding pressures including electrification, decarbonization, enormous demand from data centers, and grid technology updates like digitalization and artificial ...

SFI External Professor Mark Newman (University of Michigan) has been awarded the 2026 John von Neumann Prize from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics for his contributions to the ...

In SFI Miller Scholar Francis Spufford's new genre-spanning novel, Nonesuch, the fate of the world rests on one woman’s ...

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 ...

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 human brain is astonishingly efficient. It runs on about 20 watts, roughly the power required to keep a dim bulb lit. Over the last three decades, computer scientists in a field called ...

01/07 — 01/09 Working Group "Navigating the Space of Collective Transitions in Biology and Society," organized by Manfred Laubichler, Bryan Daniels, Colin Lynch 02/16 — 02/20 Working Group ...

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 ...