4 papers
A "good regulator theorem" for embodied agents
Nathaniel Virgo, Martin Biehl, Manuel Baltieri +1
In a classic paper, Conant and Ashby claimed that "every good regulator of a system must be a model of that system." Artificial Life has produced many examples of systems that perf…
A Bayesian Interpretation of the Internal Model Principle
Manuel Baltieri, Martin Biehl, Matteo Capucci +1
The internal model principle, originally proposed in the theory of control of linear systems, nowadays represents a more general class of results in control theory and cybernetics.…
AI in a vat: Fundamental limits of efficient world modelling for agent sandboxing and interpretability
Fernando Rosas, Alexander Boyd, Manuel Baltieri
Recent work proposes using world models to generate controlled virtual environments in which AI agents can be tested before deployment to ensure their reliability and safety. Howev…
Disentangled Representations for Causal Cognition
Filippo Torresan, Manuel Baltieri
Complex adaptive agents consistently achieve their goals by solving problems that seem to require an understanding of causal information, information pertaining to the causal relat…