Global Catastrophic and Existential Risks - The Weightiest Complex Phenomena?
Explore the interdisciplinary field of global catastrophic and existential risks, their complex dynamics, and potential mitigation strategies for ensuring a safer future for humanity.
Better Investing Through Biomimicry
Explore how biomimicry can revolutionize investing strategies, balancing innovation with sustainability and growth with resource distribution. Learn to apply nature's wisdom for better business outcomes and environmental healing.
Opinion Dynamics and Spreading Models on Social Networks
Explore how social networks influence opinion dynamics, social contagions, and polarization through mathematical models and real-world applications in online communities.
On Coronavirus, Crisis, and Creative Opportunity
Exploring how crises reshape opportunities, this talk examines evolutionary strategies for navigating disruptions and the potential for innovation amidst catastrophe in a post-coronavirus world.
Transparency in Algorithms for Risk Assessment, Housing, and Pretrial Detention
Explore the impact of algorithms on risk assessment, housing, and pretrial detention, focusing on transparency issues and their societal implications.
Epistemic Uncertainty - The AI Problem Understanding Gap and Structured Societal Context Knowledge
Exploring the AI Problem Understanding Gap and the need for structured societal context knowledge to develop safe, robust AI systems in high-stakes domains like healthcare.
A Simple Law for the Distribution of Long-term Profits
Explore the distribution of long-term profits among US firms, examining statistical models and their implications for understanding economic dynamics and 'superstar' effects.
Scaling of Information Costs in Firms
Explore the scaling dynamics of information costs within organizations, examining how firms manage and process data as they grow and evolve in size and complexity.
Writing Assistance or Plagiarism - How Language Models Are Changing Our View of Knowledge
Explore how language models are reshaping our understanding of knowledge, writing assistance, and plagiarism with insights from Anna Rogers in this thought-provoking discussion.
Designing Diversity for Sustained Innovation
Explore how diversity drives sustained innovation and its impact on knowledge complexity in this thought-provoking symposium talk by James Evans at the Santa Fe Institute.
Imitation Versus Innovation - What Children Can Do That Large Language Models Can't
Explore the unique cognitive abilities of children in comparison to AI language models, focusing on imitation and innovation in learning and problem-solving processes.
AI and Society: Oppression or Innovation?
Experts discuss AI's impact on society, exploring its potential to amplify biases or drive innovation in health, housing, justice, and more. Insights on governing AI and building a hopeful future with emerging technologies.
Crowdsourced Wearable Data and Citizen Science for Public Health Research
Explore the potential of crowdsourced wearable data and citizen science in advancing public health research, uncovering new insights and methodologies for population-level health monitoring.
Free of Scale - Structural Balance
Explore the concept of structural balance in complex systems and its implications for understanding social networks, organizational dynamics, and decision-making processes.
The Thermodynamics of Communication - Exploring Energy and Information Limits
Exploring the fundamental relationship between energy, information, and matter in communication processes. Discusses nonlinear dynamics of communication channels and their implications for collective intelligence and limits to human knowledge.
Insurance, Slavery, and Expertise
Explore the historical intersections of insurance practices, slavery, and expert knowledge, examining their lasting impacts on society and economics.
Media Complexity: Towards a Research Agenda to Study News Media Ecosystems
Explore how complexity theory can revolutionize journalism research, offering new insights into digital media ecosystems, narrative evolution, and audience engagement in the modern news landscape.
Encomienda, the Colonial State, and Long-Run Development in Colombia
Explore the impact of colonial institutions on Colombia's long-term development, focusing on the encomienda system and its lasting effects on state capacity and economic outcomes.
Overshooting Climate Targets - Increased Risks for Tipping Elements in Climate and Biosphere
Explore the risks of exceeding climate targets and their impact on tipping elements in Earth's systems, with insights on potential consequences for our planet's future.
Early Warning Signals for Dynamics on Networks
Explore early warning signals for network dynamics, uncovering predictive indicators and their applications in complex systems analysis.
Nonlinear Dynamics of Beliefs over Social Networks
Explore how social networks, internal biases, and belief systems shape group dynamics and decision-making in complex social environments.