Santa Fe Institute

Melanie Mitchell, a cognitive scientist and computer scientist at the Santa Fe Institute, argues that current methods for measuring AI cognition are inadequate and that AI represents a form of 'alien …

A 2026 investigation by Quanta Magazine science journalist John Horgan finds that large reasoning models (LRMs) from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and others exhibit both remarkable successes—such as solvi…

Bill Gurley, a former Wall Street analyst and Benchmark partner who served on Uber's board and now studies complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, shared the mental models he relies on most including sy…