In this SFI seminar, @QuantaMagazine senior video producer and 2025 SFI Journalism Fellow Emily Buder shows how animation and cinematic storytelling can translate complex ideas — like quantum gravity — into layered, resonant narratives without losing intellectual depth.

SFI President David Krakauer discusses the distinction between knowledge and intelligence in the age of AI, the concept of “exbodiment,” and what true emergence might mean for large language models. Watch the full interview with Machine Learning Street Talk:

SFI President David Krakauer discusses the distinction between knowledge and intelligence in the age of AI, the concept of “exbodiment,” and what true emergence might mean for large language models.  Watch the full interview with Machine Learning Street Talk:

The Santa Fe Institute is now accepting applications for the 2026 Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships! Complexity fellows contribute to SFI’s research and collaborate with leading researchers worldwide. If you recently completed your PhD in any scientific discipline and are interested in transdisciplinary research, consider applying. SFI offers independent research opportunities and support to explore big questions across disciplines. Deadline: October 1, 2025 Requirements & application:

In this seminar, SFI External Professor Dmitri Tymoczko (Princeton University) explores universal mathematical structures underlying music’s fundamental elements: pulse, pitch, and transformed repetition. As well as its implications for how we understand music and broader philosophical questions. Watch Tymoczko’s May 28 SFI seminar:

This spring, SFI’s Board of Trustees elected Ian McKinnon and Sam Peters as Chair and Vice-Chair. Long-time SFI supporters with New Mexico roots, they bring decades of insight, generosity, and leadership to their new roles, alongside a renewed term for SFI President David Krakauer.

This spring, SFI’s Board of Trustees elected Ian McKinnon and Sam Peters as Chair and Vice-Chair. Long-time SFI supporters with New Mexico roots, they bring decades of insight, generosity, and leadership to their new roles, alongside a renewed term for SFI President David Krakauer.

Tomorrow: the 3rd event in SFI’s 2025 Community Lecture Series! Join us at the Lensic Performing Arts Center for Gillian Tett’s lecture, “Whom Do We Trust? How AI Is (Re)Shaping Our Interactions Today” — 7:30pm. Free tickets: or watch the live stream on SFI’s YouTube (

An SFI workshop supported by the James S. McDonnell Foundation explored whether the field of history — long focused on the particularity of human experience — can incorporate lessons learned from complexity science and evolutionary biology, without losing sight of human freedom and agency.

What can ancient houses tell us about inequality?  A recent PNAS special feature, co-edited by Tim Kohler & Amy Bogaard, with contributions from Scott Ortman, uses data from 53,000 homes to trace how wealth disparities emerged, shifted, and narrowed over 10,000 years.