Jekyll2026-08-16T05:40:48+00:00https://manuelbaltieri.com/feed.xmlManuel BaltieriResearch team leader at Araya working on mathematical approaches to agency, cognition, life, and AI safety. Manuel Baltierimanuel_baltieri@araya.orgPresentation at the Italian Embassy in Japan2025-11-24T00:00:00+00:002025-11-24T00:00:00+00:00https://manuelbaltieri.com/news/ai-safetyManuel was invited to give a presentation on November 24th for a symposium organised by the Association of Italian Research in Japan (AIRJ), and hosted by the Italian Embassy in Japan. For this presentation, he briefly introduced some of his recent work on AI safety with ARIA, slides can be found here. Some pictures from the presentation below.

Manuel Baltieri presenting “Proving AI Safety” at the Italian Embassy in Japan

Manuel Baltieri discussing Italy–Japan collaboration on AI safety

]]>Manuel Baltierimanuel_baltieri@araya.orgTalk at Models of Consciousness2025-10-04T00:00:00+00:002025-10-04T00:00:00+00:00https://manuelbaltieri.com/news/mocManuel gave a Showcase talk on October 4th for the annual meeting of the Association for Mathematical Consciousness Science (AMCS)](https://amcs-community.org), Models of Consciousness 6, held in Sapporo, Japan. For this talk, Manuel covered some work in progress on a toy model of mathematical phenomenology of Braitenberg vehicles, slides available here.

]]>Manuel Baltierimanuel_baltieri@araya.orgAwarded a grant by ARIA - Mathematics for Safe AI2025-10-01T00:00:00+00:002025-10-01T00:00:00+00:00https://manuelbaltieri.com/news/ariaManuel was awarded a grant by the Advanced Research and Innovation Agency (ARIA), in the opportunity space of Mathematics for Safe AI, with a project titled “Combining Physical and Intentional Stance for Safe AI”. The project is for two years, 2025-2027.

]]>Manuel Baltierimanuel_baltieri@araya.orgSeminar at Unified theory of prediction and action meeting2025-05-30T00:00:00+00:002025-05-30T00:00:00+00:00https://manuelbaltieri.com/news/unifiedtheoryManuel was invited to give a seminar on May 30th for a meeting organised by the Unified theory of prediction and action group, led by Takuya Isomura. He briefly introduced some of his recent work on predictive coding seen through the lenses of coalgebras, slides can be found here.

]]>Manuel Baltierimanuel_baltieri@araya.org“AI in a vat” accepted at RLC2025-05-21T00:00:00+00:002025-05-21T00:00:00+00:00https://manuelbaltieri.com/news/rlcManuel’s work with Fernando Rosas and Alec Boyd, see this thread, was accepted for the 2nd Reinforcement Learning Conference at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada. PDF available here as a preprint.

]]>Manuel Baltierimanuel_baltieri@araya.orgTalk at Breakthrough Discuss2025-04-23T00:00:00+00:002025-04-23T00:00:00+00:00https://manuelbaltieri.com/news/breakthroughManuel was invited to give a talk on April 23rd for an event organised by Breakthrough Initiatives, launched by Yuri Milner and Stephen Hawking and currently chaired by Pete Wordenled. He introduced some of his recent on agency as a “relative” of a definition of life, or rather as one of its precursors, based on material he taught at a winter school in Sapporo in 2023, see this blogpost, slides can be found here and the recording here.

]]>Manuel Baltierimanuel_baltieri@araya.orgSeminar at IoB Event2025-03-06T00:00:00+00:002025-03-06T00:00:00+00:00https://manuelbaltieri.com/news/iob-eventManuel was invited to give a seminar on March 6th for an event organised by the Internet of Brains group, led by Ryota Kanai. He introduced some of his recent work on internal models and their Bayesian interpretations, see this blogpost, slides can be found here.

]]>Manuel Baltierimanuel_baltieri@araya.orgCo-organising ALIFE 20252025-03-01T00:00:00+00:002025-03-01T00:00:00+00:00https://manuelbaltieri.com/news/alife-2025ALIFE 2025 - Cyphers of Life

Kyoto - Japan, 6th-10th October 2025.

Manuel will be a Co-organiser of ALIFE 2025 - Cyphers of Life, following his role in ALIFE 2023 - Ghost in the machine, and ALIFE 2022 - La DOLCE Vita.

This year’s theme is Ciphers of Life, encouraging participants to explore the many ways that life encodes information, creates internal languages, and interacts in encrypted ways with its environment. Artificial life research focuses on understanding, replicating, and extending the fundamental principles of life. Much of this research involves creating artificial systems that exhibit life-like behaviors.

Classically, these endeavors are divided into three categories: Hardware research, wetware research, and software research. At ALIFE 2025 conference, the newest research in all three categories will be featured alongside artistic expressions, industry vendors, public events, and more.

]]>Manuel Baltierimanuel_baltieri@araya.orgSeminar at CHAIN, Hokkaido University2025-01-08T00:00:00+00:002025-01-08T00:00:00+00:00https://manuelbaltieri.com/news/chain-invited-talkManuel was invited to give a seminar on January 8th for the Computational Agency workshop at CHAIN, organised by Keisuke Suzuki. He introduced some of his recent work in progress on evaluating what beliefs can be attributed to Braitenberg vehicles, slides can be found here.

]]>Manuel Baltierimanuel_baltieri@araya.orgWork on disentanglement published in PoLR2024-12-01T00:00:00+00:002024-12-01T00:00:00+00:00https://manuelbaltieri.com/news/publication-polrManuel’s work with Filippo Torresan, see this blogpost, was published in Physics of Life Reviews.

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