Advancing the science of effective organisation. A learned society for the study and application of cybernetics and thinking systemically.
Est. 1968 · London1–3 July · Loughborough University Business School
Celebrating Stafford Beer at his centenary, exploring Dan Davies’ Unaccountability Machine, and sessions on Information and Cybernetics, Badlands, and Ethics and AI. Session leaders welcome.
The Cybernetics Society explores how cybernetics can be used to understand a wide range of interdisciplinary subjects — from artificial intelligence and the sciences to design, ecology, psychology and organisational governance.
Monthly online Cybernetics Live sessions and an annual in-person conference bring together researchers, practitioners and thinkers from across the cybernetics and systems community.
View Upcoming Events →Our open-access peer-reviewed journal explores and develops the many ways cybernetics may be practised in the world, with a focus on radical transdisciplinarity.
Read the Journal →The Society awards the learned credentials MCybS and FCybS — Member and Fellow of the Cybernetics Society — under authority of the Friendly Societies Act 1974.
Learn About Membership →Cybernetics studies the common features of large complex systems with apparently purpose-like behaviour. This involves understanding concepts such as feedback, self-organisation, variety, requisite variety, homeostasis, and autopoiesis. Founded at King's College London in 1968, the Cybernetics Society is one of the world's leading institutions for this powerful, paradigm-shifting discipline.
The Society is one of the few organisations where people can meet to discuss a wide range of interdisciplinary subjects ranging from artificial intelligence, engineering, design, system organisation, consciousness, architecture, biology, ecology, economics and beyond. We use cybernetics' own concept of variety in our policy to welcome all people with equal respect.
Recordings of our monthly seminars, the Presidents Series, and annual conferences are freely available on our YouTube channel.
Visit YouTube Channel →Membership is open to anyone with an interest in cybernetics and thinking systemically. Annual subscription from £30.
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