10 papers
Life as Plasmas: Autonomy and Interactivism in-materio
Nicolás Hinrichs, Mahault Albarracin, Felipe Engelberger +2
When is a material system a candidate for life at all? We argue that this question is prior to behavior, functional architecture, or computational capacity, and that at root it is…
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…
Empathy Modeling in Active Inference Agents for Perspective-Taking and Alignment
Mahault Albarracin, Albarracin Mahault, Mikeda Anna +12
Artificial agents that model other agents must predict their behavior and determine whether their outcomes matter within action selection. We introduce an active inference framewor…
EcoNet: Multiagent Planning and Control Of Household Energy Resources Using Active Inference
John C. Boik, Kobus Esterhuysen, Jacqueline B. Hynes +5
Advances in automated systems afford new opportunities for intelligent management of energy at household, local area, and utility scales. Home Energy Management Systems (HEMS) can…
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…
Geometric Hyperscanning of Affect under Active Inference
Nicolas Hinrichs, Mahault Albarracin, Dimitris Bolis +3
Second-person neuroscience holds social cognition as embodied meaning co-regulation through reciprocal interaction, modeled here as coupled active inference with affect emerging as…