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Active Inference: A method for Phenotyping Agency in AI systems?
Philip Wilson, Axel Constant, Mahault Albarracin +4
The proliferation of agentic artificial intelligence has outpaced the conceptual tools needed to characterize agency in computational systems. Prevailing definitions mainly rely on…
Normative active inference: A numerical proof of principle for a computational and economic legal analytic approach to AI governance
Axel Constant, Mahault Albarracin, Karl J. Friston
This paper presents a computational account of how legal norms can influence the behavior of artificial intelligence (AI) agents, grounded in the active inference framework (AIF) t…
A Path Towards Legal Autonomy: An interoperable and explainable approach to extracting, transforming, loading and computing legal information using large language models, expert systems and Bayesian networks
Axel Constant, Hannes Westermann, Bryan Wilson +6
Legal autonomy - the lawful activity of artificial intelligence agents - can be achieved in one of two ways. It can be achieved either by imposing constraints on AI actors such as…
Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence: Insights from the Science of Consciousness
Patrick Butlin, Robert Long, Eric Elmoznino +16
Whether current or near-term AI systems could be conscious is a topic of scientific interest and increasing public concern. This report argues for, and exemplifies, a rigorous and…
A variational synthesis of evolutionary and developmental dynamics
Karl Friston, Daniel Ari Friedman, Axel Constant +3
This paper introduces a variational formulation of natural selection, paying special attention to the nature of "things" and the way that different "kinds" of "things" are individu…
Sources of Richness and Ineffability for Phenomenally Conscious States
Xu Ji, Eric Elmoznino, George Deane +5
Conscious states (states that there is something it is like to be in) seem both rich or full of detail, and ineffable or hard to fully describe or recall. The problem of ineffabili…
Neural and phenotypic representation under the free-energy principle
Maxwell J. D. Ramstead, Casper Hesp, Alec Tschantz +3
The aim of this paper is to leverage the free-energy principle and its corollary process theory, active inference, to develop a generic, generalizable model of the representational…
Cognition coming about: self-organisation and free-energy
Ines Hipolito, Maxwell Ramstead, Axel Constant +1
Wright and Bourkes compelling article rightly points out that existing models of embryogenesis fail to explain the mechanisms and functional significance of the dynamic connections…
A World unto Itself: Human Communication as Active Inference
Jared Vasil, Paul B. Badcock, Axel Constant +2
Work in developmental psychology suggests that humans are predisposed to align their mental states with other individuals. This manifests principally in cooperative communication,…