SFI is in the full swing of summer activities. We are awash in early-career researchers who have come to Santa Fe for our long-standing, long-form educational opportunities, the Undergraduate ...

Bernet, GP; Elena, SF Background: Understanding the causes and consequences of phenotypic variability is a central topic of evolutionary biology. Mutations within non-coding cis-regulatory regions are ...

As artificial intelligence has become a regular part of our daily lives, companies have run into a serious problem: their ...

A new edited volume published this past April explores SFI Miller Scholar Ted Chiang’s science fiction through a philosophical lens. The book is a rare addition to the subgenre, writes SFI ...

SFI Complexity Postdoctoral Fellow Anna Clemencia Guerrero has received a Whitman Center Fellowship from the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. The fellowship, awarded to ...

In many careers, a person must learn foundational skills before advancing more deeply into their profession. A recent paper in Nature Human Behavior mapped the dependency relationships ...

Welcome to Santa Fe Institute.In several of our recent experiments (Herrnstein, Prelec, & Vaughan, 1986), subjects made choices in a way that supports the idea that choice is governed, either ...

AI evaluation is increasingly relied upon, shaping AI system development, model selection, and informing public policy and regulation. In order to perform these functions well, a well-grounded and ...

Brave thinkers willing to explore new ideas about economics, policy, and governance. Early-career scholars and change-makers from civil society and private industry are equally encouraged to apply.

Medieval friar William of Ockham posited a famous idea: always pick the simplest explanation. Often referred to as the parsimony principle, “Ockham’s razor” has shaped scientific ...

Cultural traits — the information, beliefs, behaviors, customs, and practices that shape the character of a population — are influenced by conformity, the tendency to align with ...