Although today Tomek Korbak is a Senior Research Scientist at the UK AI Safety Institute working on Language Models, during his short career he has written interesting pieces on Artificial Life, writings that are not so well known (neither well recognized) by the majority of researchers in such a field.

Complexity72h is an interdisciplinary workshop for young researchers in complex systems. Participants form teams and carry out projects in a three days’ time, i.e. 72 hours. The goal of each team is to finalize a report of their work by the end of the event.

Opportunity to join us at the IAS-Research Center for Life, Mind, and Society at the University of the Basque Country (San Sebastian) for a PhD studentship within the “Outagencies -> Varieties of autonomous agency across living, humanimal, and technical systems” project -> an interdisciplinary exploration of agency across philosophy, biology, AI, and social sciences. We welcome passionate candidates from any background aligned with our research themes, who bring strong motivation, English proficiency, and a robust academic profile.

We invite PhD/Postgraduate students and Early Career Researchers to submit an abstract for poster presentation at the Statistical Physics of Cognition workshop, 25-26 November 2024, Institute of Physics, London, UK

The Center for Neural Science (CNS) at New York University (NYU) invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track or tenured, open-rank faculty position on computational neuroscience, preferably with a focus on the theory of neural circuits.

The Eighth Northeast Regional Conference on Complex Systems, April 9 - 11 2025, Binghamton, United Stated of America

Announcing the NYU Infant Consciousness Conference | Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness, New York University | Feb 28 - Mar 1, 2025.

Four years ago Luis Felipe Del Castillo, who was my thermodynamics professor at the time, passed away. In those days of mourning I wrote him a poem that was later published in the Revista Mexicana de Física. Here is the original and an accurate English translation of the poem.

Are you interested in the intersections between cognitive science and artificial intelligence? Johns Hopkins university has available positions as PhD and postdoc.

The University of Florida is looking for a postdoc in philosophy of AI, covering parallely topics on mind, science, cognitive science, and ethics.