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

The complex interplay of institutions that make up human societies — governments, markets, firms, and families — illustrates our species’ complex social nature. But our relationships with these ...

SFI Complexity Postdoctoral Fellow Anna Clemencia Guerrero has received a Whitman Center Fellowship from the Marine ...

Societies today face daunting challenges: population growth, rapid urbanization, ecological and environmental disturbances, and an unpredictable global marketplace. To address these complex and ...

It has been the great triumph of the sciences to find consistent means of studying phenomena hidden by both space and time, overcoming the limits of cognition and material culture. To hide in space ...

<p>The 2025 application deadline has passed.</p>Study Complex Behaviors Across Systems Program Overview • Dates & Times • Registration Fee • Program Goals • Venue • Staff & Faculty • Audience • ...

In the final episode of the season, Abha sits down with Melanie to hear her perspective. They chat about Melanie’s career and research with Douglas Hofstadter, the author of Gödel, Escher, Bach. They ...

The Santa Fe Institute celebrates one of its founders with a new edition of a seminal work by the late Nobel laureate Murray Gell-Mann. Originally published in 1994, The Quark & the Jaguar spans the ...

Welcome to Santa Fe Institute.This paper provides a logical framework for complexity economics. Complexity economics builds from the proposition that the economy is not necessarily in equilibrium: ...

Welcome to Santa Fe Institute.Self-organized criticality (abbreviated as SOC from here on) describes a large and varied body of phenomenological data and theoretical work. As is the case with many ...

Office of Applied Complexity The Office of Applied Complexity helps the broader world access actionable insights from SFI’s scientific work. Examples of complexity science’s application to real-world ...