{"id":238997,"date":"2026-06-30T14:23:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T18:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/30\/can-ai-want-something-urochester-awarded-templeton-foundation-grant-to-find-out\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T15:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T19:00:14","slug":"can-ai-want-something-urochester-awarded-templeton-foundation-grant-to-find-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/30\/can-ai-want-something-urochester-awarded-templeton-foundation-grant-to-find-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Can AI want something? URochester awarded Templeton Foundation grant to find out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/templeton-foundation-agentic-intelligence-difference-between-life-machines-709252\/\">Can AI want something? URochester awarded Templeton Foundation grant to find out<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/templeton-foundation-agentic-intelligence-difference-between-life-machines-709252\/\">https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/templeton-foundation-agentic-intelligence-difference-between-life-machines-709252\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-30 14:23:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.rochester.edu\">www.rochester.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The article discusses the launch of a new institute, the Virtual Institute for the Physics of Agentic Intelligence (VIPAI), funded by a $4.2 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation.<\/li>\n<li>The institute aims to investigate the fundamental differences between living organisms and machines, specifically, how living beings can be seen as autonomous agents, while machines operate based on programming.<\/li>\n<li>Led by the University of Rochester, VIPAI will be an international collaboration involving physicists, biologists, philosophers, and computer scientists from several prestigious institutions.<\/li>\n<li>The research will focus on three main areas: developing a philosophical foundation for agency and meaning, creating mathematical models of autonomous systems, and understanding the nature of semantic information used by living organisms.<\/li>\n<li>The ultimate goal is to compare artificial and biological forms of agency to find general principles underlying intelligent behavior and to understand the conditions under which machines might develop agency-like traits.<\/li>\n<li>The institute&#8217;s work is expected to provide a scientific foundation for the next generation of intelligent systems and address the deeper questions about what it means to be intelligent and autonomous.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can AI want something? URochester awarded Templeton Foundation grant to find out https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/templeton-foundation-agentic-intelligence-difference-between-life-machines-709252\/ Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":238998,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/fea-GettyImages-1467463101-1200x630.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238997"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238999,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238997\/revisions\/238999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}