Diverse Intelligences Hubs (4 universities)

Templeton World Charity Foundation's Diverse Intelligences priority funds research that crosses the boundary between human cognition, animal cognition, and artificial intelligence. The priority began in 2016 and seeded a community of researchers in neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, anthropology, biology, and AI. The September 2025 hub announcement consolidated this community into four multi-year hubs sited at Princeton, Macquarie, and a joint hub at the University of St Andrews and Indiana University (counted by Templeton as one hub but operationalized across both institutions).

Each hub has named co-leads and a thematic focus. The Princeton hub is led by Tom Griffiths, Tania Lombrozo, and Sarah-Jane Leslie, taking a comparative approach to AI and cognitive science. The St Andrews / Indiana hub is led by Josep Call and Amanda Seed at St Andrews School of Psychology and Neuroscience, collaborating with Indiana University's Center for Possible Minds led by Jacob Foster and Erica Cartmill; its scope spans animal cognition, human creativity, and AGI. The Macquarie hub, with reported funding of approximately AUD $1.2 million, is directed by Andrew Barron and focuses on early-career leadership and collaborations across AI development, the evolution of cognition, and human cognitive wellbeing.

Each hub administers seed funding for early-career researchers and runs international convenings and visitor programs. The structural intent, per the Templeton announcement, is to make the Diverse Intelligences community legible as a coordinated international research network rather than a set of disconnected grants.

Within the open-source AI stack the work sits primarily at evaluation (treating "intelligence" as a measurable property across substrates rather than as a benchmark score on text tasks) and governance (the public framing around what kinds of intelligence AI systems possess relative to humans and other animals). It is methodologically adjacent to the cognitive-science-of-LLMs work at places like NYU's CILVR and MIT's BCS, but with a substantially broader comparative-cognition span.