Research
Study difficult questions in AI, mathematics, and meta-ethics. Publish methods, uncertainty, and results in forms others can inspect and challenge.
View researchIndependent research + community
Think carefully.
Build openly.
Move the work forward.
Syn is an independent community working to advance AI research and meta-ethics through open inquiry, collaborative projects, hackathons, workshops, and public events.
Work that leaves a trace
Research notesMethods, sources, and limitations
Open projectsCode, demos, and shared artifacts
Community eventsTalks, workshops, and hackathons
Event archivesRecordings, write-ups, and next steps
How Syn works
One community,
three ways to contribute.
Intellectual ambition matters. So does making the work legible, useful, and open to challenge.
Build together
Turn ideas into open tools, experiments, benchmarks, and prototypes through hackathons and focused project groups.
Explore projectsConvene
Host talks, workshops, reading groups, and gatherings that connect rigorous thinking with practical work.
See the programmeSelected work
Work in progress,
shared in public.
Projects include enough context to question, reproduce, and improve the work—not only its final result.
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AI-assisted mathematics
Read the research 02Erdős 472
A documented investigation of a difficult open problem: definitions, partial results, primary references, and clear limits on what has been established.
Language and access
Browse the archive 03Translation Archive
An evolving archive of historical texts, designed to make source provenance, model use, and review status explicit for every edition.
Speculative inquiry
Read the stories Story
Fiction about AI, institutions, agency, and responsibility—used to test assumptions, and always presented as fiction.
Public programme
Meet around a problem.
Leave with something useful.
Syn’s programme brings researchers, builders, artists, and serious newcomers together. Every gathering aims to produce a trace: working code, a recorded talk, shared notes, or a new collaboration.
Public programme announcing soon
Hackathons
Research build weekends
Small teams, scoped questions, working artifacts, public demos, and repositories.
Talks
Open research nights
Work-in-progress talks with generous critique, references, notes, and concrete next steps.
Discussion
Meta-ethics salons
Focused discussion where technical questions meet moral responsibility and public life.
How we earn trust
Serious work needs
visible standards.
Public by default
We will publish methods, sources, artifacts, and limitations whenever responsible.
Claims with boundaries
We will distinguish established results, preliminary findings, experiments, and fiction.
Named accountability
Each project will identify its contributors, reviewers, status, and last update.
Respectful participation
Governance, conduct, privacy, and safety practices will be public before launch.
Build with us
Bring a question.
Leave a contribution.
Join a project, propose an experiment, host a session, review a draft, or help turn an idea into work others can use.
You do not need a formal research title to contribute. You do need curiosity, care, and respect for evidence.