# 📄 AII_v1

**Active Inference Institute** (2023) · *Zenodo*

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## Abstract

> An overview of the Active Inference Institute (AII), describing its mission, organizational structure, projects, and community. The institute serves as a hub for Active Inference research, education, and application, leveraging open-science methodologies to advance understanding of the Free Energy Principle and its applications across domains.

## Keywords

`Active Inference Institute` · `open science` · `research organization` · `Free Energy Principle` · `community building`

## Methods

- Program coordination
- Community governance design

## Key Findings

- This document briefly surveys the current state of the Active Inference Institute and Active Inference Ecosystem, and outlines our future directions..
- It will be versioned as a living representation (both cyclic and updating) of ecosystems both general and local, describing the past, present, and future actions of the Active Inference Institute..

## Artifacts

- DOI: [10.5281/zenodo.8266280](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8266280)
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- PDF: [2023_AII_v1.pdf](2023_AII_v1.pdf)
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## Citation

> Active Inference Institute (2023). *AII_v1*. Zenodo. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8266280. URL: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8266280.

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