On the present setting of the work.
The contemporary study of intelligence (biological, artificial, and collective) has expanded considerably across the past decade; the institutions that ought to hold it together have not, on the whole, kept pace. Our work, in part, is to attend to that.
Thinking About Thinking, ideas about intelligence.
Welcome to the oasis.
Dr Ruairidh McLennan Battleday BMBCh (Oxon) PhD
Dr Ruairidh Battleday is a cognitive scientist, AI researcher and founder working at the intersection of artificial intelligence, neuroscience and mathematics.
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Professor James Whittington BMBCh (Oxon), DPhil (Oxon)
Professor James Whittington is a computational neuroscientist and AI researcher working at the intersection of neuroscience, artificial intelligence and mathematics.
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Open Problems for AI. Friends House, London, 25–27 November 2026. Confirmed speakers, with more announced as the programme is settled.
Max Welling
CuspAI & University of Amsterdam
Kanishka Narayan
Cabinet
Mandeep Singh
Investor
Carles Reina
Baobab Ventures
Dr Raia Hadsell
Google DeepMind
Danyal Akarca
Callosum
Tobias Halloran
NVIDIA
Katja Hofmann
Microsoft
Kriti Sharma
IFS Nexus Black
Hannah Madan
Prima Mente
Tonya Frolov
Gathered.Bio
Jakob Mökander
General Catalyst
Vassia Simaiaki
Wayve
Kärt Tomberg
ExpressionEdits
Inga Van den Bossche
Stealth
Events
Two flagship gatherings. The AE Global Summit is our Annual Meeting, three days in London on Open Problems for AI: research, infrastructure, application and governance. The International Conference on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and AI is our peer-reviewed scientific conference, on the biological, mathematical and computational foundations of intelligence.
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Fellowship
Our standing society; fellows and ambassadors at work in more than 200 cities. The Fellowship is invitation-only. The Ambassador Programme, an open application route for students and early-career researchers, is how most people first meet us.
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Seminar Groups
Online, discussion-led sessions at which researchers and practitioners present work in progress, methodologies and applications. Topics span artificial intelligence, neuroscience, cognitive science, computational linguistics, computer vision, robotics and information theory.
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Recordings
Recorded talks, panels and seminar sessions from across our events. We keep them, more modestly, as the long memory of the work and as a route in for those who couldn't attend the original session.
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Activities & Programmes
- I.AE Global Summit · Open Problems for AIA flagship conference on the open problems of artificial intelligence in research, startup and applications. London, 25-27 November 2026.Enter →
- II.Annual ConferenceAn interdisciplinary scientific conference on the foundations of intelligence; submission-led, peer-reviewed and oriented toward open problems. Villa Wolkonsky, Rome, 9-12 June 2026.Enter →
- III.Seminar GroupsOnline, discussion-led sessions for sustained interdisciplinary exchange. Launching 2026.Enter →
- IV.FellowshipThe standing society of fellows and ambassadors. Admission by application or invitation.Enter →
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