"Agency" extends beyond just human decision-making and autonomy. It describes how ALL SYSTEMS, interact with their environment to maintain their existence. Watch behind the scenes, get early access and join the private Discord by supporting us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/mlst (public discord) https://discord.gg/aNPkGUQtc5 https://twitter.com/MLStreetTalk DOES AI HAVE AGENCY? With Professor. Karl Friston and Riddhi J. Pitliya According to the free energy principle, living organisms strive to minimize the difference between their predicted states and the actual sensory inputs they receive. This principle suggests that agency arises as a natural consequence of this process, particularly when organisms appear to plan ahead many steps in the future. Riddhi J. Pitliya is based in the computational psychopathology lab doing her Ph.D at the University of Oxford and works with Professor Karl Friston https://twitter.com/RiddhiJP References: THE FREE ENERGY PRINCIPLE—A PRECIS [Ramstead] https://www.dialecticalsystems.eu/contributions/the-free-energy-principle-a-precis/ Active Inference: The Free Energy Principle in Mind, Brain, and Behavior [Thomas Parr, Giovanni Pezzulo, Karl J. Friston] https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5299/Active-InferenceThe-Free-Energy-Principle-in-Mind The beauty of collective intelligence, explained by a developmental biologist | Michael Levin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U93x9AWeuOA Growing Neural Cellular Automata https://distill.pub/2020/growing-ca Carcinisation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation Prof. KENNETH STANLEY - Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhYGXYeMq_E On Defining Artificial Intelligence [Pei Wang] https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/jagi-2019-0002 Why? The Purpose of the Universe [Goff] https://amzn.to/4aEqpfm Umwelt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umwelt An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms [Yong] https://amzn.to/3tzzTb7 What's it like to be a bat [Nagal] https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Nagel_Bat.pdf COUNTERFEIT PEOPLE. DANIEL DENNETT. (SPECIAL EDITION) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axJtywd9Tbo We live in the infosphere [FLORIDI] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLNGvvgq3eg Mark Zuckerberg: First Interview in the Metaverse | Lex Fridman Podcast #398 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVYrJJNdrEg Black Mirror: Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too | Official Trailer | Netflix https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qIlCo9yqpY Prof. Kristinn R. Thórisson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristinn_R._Th%C3%B3risson