INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS
Human cognition and interaction with intelligent systems
What is happening to us?
We investigate the relationship between human cognition and artificial intelligence, analyzing how this interaction redefines our capacities for judgment, learning, and agency in an expansive technological environment.
WHAT WE ARE TRYING TO UNDERSTAND
We seek to understand what kind of systems are emerging from the development of artificial intelligence and how they are changing their capabilities for perception, reasoning, learning, coordination, and action. We are especially interested in the transition from tools that respond to instructions toward systems capable of operating with increasing degrees of autonomy, interacting with other systems, and producing effects in digital and physical environments.
Agents and autonomy
Research on systems capable of pursuing objectives, executing tasks, and coordinating actions with increasing degrees of autonomy.
Reasoning and emergent capabilities
Study of new capabilities for inference, planning, learning, and problem-solving in artificial intelligence systems.
Multi-agent systems and coordination
Exploration of architectures in which multiple human and artificial agents interact, cooperate, and make decisions.
Artificial intelligence in the physical world
Analysis of the expansion of intelligent systems into robotics, infrastructure, science, industry, and other environments of action.
FEATURED RESEARCH
THINKLAB NOTE
DECEMBER 2026
From Generative AI to Agentic Systems
Exploration of the transition from models that generate information toward systems capable of planning, coordinating tools, and executing actions.
PUBLICATIONS AND FIELD NOTES
FIELD NOTE
NOV 2026
From models to agents
PAPER
OCT 2026
Autonomy architectures in intelligent systems
ESSAY
SEP 2026
When artificial intelligence begins to act
RELATED PROGRAMS
Some Cosmópolis Lab programs arise from the research developed in this Think Lab. These spaces explore the evolution of intelligent systems, their new capabilities, and the transformations they produce by progressively integrating into human, institutional, and social processes.
OPEN QUESTIONS
What changes when a system stops only responding to instructions and begins to pursue objectives?
What forms of coordination emerge when human and artificial agents act within the same system?
What happens when algorithmic intelligence acquires the capacity to act physically in the world?
FOLLOW THE RESEARCH
Cosmópolis Lab maintains an open network of academic and intellectual collaboration. If your institution or research center wishes to propose a joint line of work, you can contact us directly.
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