About
SARI — the Science of Agency Research Institute — is an independent, non-profit research organization working to accelerate the development of a new scientific paradigm in which falsifiable theories of agency can be developed, which make empirical claims about real, bounded agents.
We approach this from an inter-disciplinary perspective, drawing on insights from cognitive science, economics, learning theory, control theory and the history of science.
This project emerged from the AFFINE Superintelligence Alignment Fellowship in May 2026, which all of our team participated in.
Our current work is described on the research page.
Team
Ben Auer
Ben has a background in Neuroscience and Pure Mathematics from the University of Melbourne.
Fernando Garcia
Fernando has a Master's degree in Philosophy which he obtained from study at various institutions, including the University of Bonn, as well as a Bachelor's in Linguistics from the University of Göttingen.
Nico Penttilä
Nico is a current Master's student in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Aalto in Helsinki, Finland.