The Future AI Society is a not-for-profit community focused on developing AI systems that can represent and use knowledge.
Current AI systems are highly effective at pattern recognition and prediction, but they do not build persistent models of the world or support true understanding.
Our work explores an alternative approach: building structured models of knowledge that allow systems to derive new information, adapt to new situations, and interact with the world in a more human-like way.
What We Do
The Society develops and tests approaches to intelligence based on structured knowledge.
This includes:
- representing knowledge as connected relationships
- deriving new information from structure rather than prediction
- grounding meaning in interaction and experience
These ideas are explored through working systems, including Brain Simulator Thought and Brain Simulator II.
The focus is on implementation and experimentation, not just theory.
Community
The Future AI Society is an open, not-for-profit effort.
Participants include developers, researchers, and individuals interested in alternative approaches to AI.
Anyone can:
- explore the software
- join discussions
- contribute ideas and development
There is nothing to buy—only systems to explore and build.
Founder
The Future AI Society was founded by Charles J. Simon, a software developer and entrepreneur with experience in AI systems, simulation, and engineering.
Scientific memberships
Microsoft Alumni Group
IEEE, AAAI, and AAAS.
High-IQ memberships
TripelNine Society, Intertel, and Mensa.
About Founder
Charles J. Simon
As founder of the Future AI Society in 2023, Charles Simon has seen a period of extraordinary growth for Artificial Intelligence and with it the enormous potential for the underlying software technology of revolutionary algorithms that “ADD Common Sense to AI”. Much of the Society’s technology comes from the Future AI company which was selected for AI Time Journal’s list of “Top Artificial Intelligence Companies to Watch in 2023″. Located next to MIT in Cambridge and a MIT CSAIL Alliance Member, Future AI has the advantage of being near top science and technology influences as well as the opportunity for easy expansion.
Charles, a Silicon Valley and venture-backed entrepreneur, founded Vectron Graphics, one of the world’s first CAD computing companies, and as a Microsoft alum was a Co-founder of Gift Certificates.com, successfully sold to AOL, a leader in online services. He has sold Commercial CAD Technology to the Stanford Linear Accelerator (SLAC), Harris Corp (now L3 Harris Technologies, defense contractor), NASA Ames Laboratory, and McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing). Also, he is noted for two AI systems and three generations of CAD.
His broad management, startup, and combined development experience in neurological test equipment, CPUs, and artificial intelligence software makes him a uniquely qualified expert. He has a Master of Science in Computer Science and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical engineering. He attended the Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science Entrepreneurship and the Stanford University Business School AEA. Charles also has memberships in several High-IQ Societies and the Forbes Technology Council.
He is the author of numerous published science books, articles, papers, and technical presentations. He received a 5-Star and a Notable Book Award for “Will Computers Revolt” and received a Microsoft Fellow Award Nomination. Also, he has been written about in Newsweek and other leading media.
As an extreme sailor, in 2017 he was the Captain of one of only 15 sailboats in the world (as recorded by the University of Cambridge, UK, Scott Polar Research Institute), to Circumnavigate the North American Continent via the Arctic Northwest Passage Transit. Satellite-mapping was used to survey the route and a new channel was added in the Arctic Tasmania Islands, now named after Charles. He is also one of the few to additionally complete a sailing World Circumnavigation.
