Active inference, and the Free Energy Principle, provide a powerful way of understanding agency, cognition and perception, as well as, more broadly, self-organising behaviour. The field of AI Alignment aims to understand the ways in which advanced, artificially implemented intelligent systems may come to cause important harms, and how to prevent that from happening. As such, both fields find themselves grappling with fundamental questions about agency, intelligence, intentions/drives/values, individuality, and more.
Partners: Alignment of Complex Systems Group
