Name: Bridging VSM and AI: Reviewing Progress, Shaping Futures with the Metaphorum AI Special Interest Group
Start: 2025-07-04T13:45:00+0100
End: 2025-07-04T14:45:00+0100

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Friday July 4, 2025 13:45 - 14:45 BST

MBS Room 3

The Metaphorum AI Special Interest Group (SIG) invites practitioners, researchers, and innovators to a dynamic session reviewing its 2024–2025 initiatives and co-designing its next-phase agenda. This session will:
Highlight Key Achievements
Present insights from collaborative projects, including AI-enhanced VSM diagnostics, ethical governance frameworks for autonomous systems, and human-AI decision-making synergies.
Share case studies of AI applications in organizational resilience, such as real-time viability monitoring and adaptive policy formulation.
Provoke Critical Dialogue
Debate unresolved challenges: How can VSM principles mitigate risks of AI-driven centralization? What safeguards ensure AI augments—rather than undermines—human agency in complex systems?
Explore tensions between AI’s predictive power and VSM’s emphasis on adaptive, distributed intelligence.
Interactive Co-Creation
Participate in small-group workshops to:
Prioritize research questions for 2025–2026 (e.g., AI in syntegration processes, AI-as-System-4 collaborator).
Draft protocols for responsible AI integration in VSM implementations.
Contribute to a live “SIG Roadmap” integrating participant expertise.
Who Should Attend:
VSM practitioners exploring AI’s role in system governance
AI developers seeking cybernetic frameworks for ethical design
Academics studying human-machine collaboration in complex systems

Outcome:
Participants will leave with actionable strategies for leveraging AI within VSM contexts and opportunities to join ongoing SIG projects, including a planned Systems Research and Behavioral Science special issue on “Cybernetic Futures: AI and the Evolution of Viable Systems.”
Engagement Format:
Lightning talks from SIG leads
World Café-style roundtables
Collaborative roadmap drafting

Join us to shape how AI and cybernetics can collectively steward viable, equitable systems in an age of instability.

Presenters

Margaret Heath

Margaret is a life long cybernetician who describes herself as ignorant and curious. She is actively curious now about the life of mitochondria as little and massive cybernetic processeses in the human body. Light as a regulator is also a area to challenge her ignorance and curio... Read More →

Panos Panagiotakopoulos

SIG Chair, Metaphorum AI SIG Chair

Panos is a sustainability researcher and consultant with 15+ years of experience in coaching organizations to assess and integrate sustainability. As principal and founder of the boutique consulting Close the Loop, Panos has advised companies from the financial, agricultural, real... Read More →

Peter Tuddenham

CoExplorer, College of Exploration

Peter D. Tuddenham is the President of the College of Exploration (TCOE) , a not-for-profit global online learning organization he co-founded in Virginia USA in 1991. He is Past President of the International Society for the Systems Sciences (2018-2019) and a trustee of the American... Read More →

Friday July 4, 2025 13:45 - 14:45 BST
MBS Room 3 Alliance Manchester Business School (AMBS) The University of Manchester Booth Street West Manchester M15 6PB, England, United Kingdom

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