The Networks
Diverse Intelligences is a global community of scholars brought together by a funding effort by the Templeton World Charity Foundation. The goal of the DI community is to understand a world alive with brilliance in many forms. Its mission is to promote open-minded, forward-looking inquiry in animal, human, and machine intelligences. The DI community is also anchored by the Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI), an intensive summer program for early career researchers and scholars aimed at creating new transdiciplinary research.
International Society for Artificial Life
The International Society for Artificial Life (ISAL) is a democratic, international, professional society dedicated to promoting research and education in Artificial Life. Their mission is to 1) create a supportive and inclusive community focused on ethical and effective scholarship in Artificial Life and 2) increase the external impact, accessibility, and relevance of scholarship in Artificial Life.
The SPRG is a consortium of Scottish researchers studying primates. Their research includes field studies of primates in the wild, especially in Africa and South America. They also study captive primates to answer questions that cannot be answered in the wild, such as how monkeys perceive the social and physical world they live in. SPRG specialises in primate psychology and behaviour. They have a special interest in what we can learn about our own evolutionary origins by better understanding our closest living relations. SPRG studies also include the conservation of wild primates and the welfare of captive ones.
Earth Species Project is a non-profit dedicated to using artificial intelligence to decode non-human communication. They believe that an understanding of non-human languages will transform our relationship with the rest of nature. Along the way, they aim to build solutions that are supporting real conservation impact today.
The Santa Fe Institute is a global network of researchers who endeavor to understand and unify the underlying, shared patterns in complex physical, biological, social, cultural, technological, and even possible astrobiological worlds. SFI has a campus in New Mexico, but its network of scholars spans borders, departments, and disciplines, unifying curious minds steeped in rigorous logical, mathematical, and computational reasoning.
Active AI
ActiveAI connects two complementary research hubs: the UK Brains on Board programme of bio-inspired autonomous robotics and the Australian insect neuroethology network. This unique combination will create new solutions for autonomous robots through the study of active learning in insects, combining world leading expertise and methodologies in insect neuroscience with computational and biorobotic modelling.
Interspecies Internet is a think-tank to accelerate our understanding of interspecies communication. With the aim to positively impact species conservation, welfare, empathy, compassion, enrichment, sustainability, and understanding, it brings together a multidisciplinary group drawn from the sciences, arts and humanities in a rich collaborative forum, to advance the understanding and appreciation of the mental lives and intelligence of the diverse species with which we share our planet.
