The Society is established for the advancement of education, in particular the advancement and diffusion of a knowledge of cybernetics pure and applied and especially promoting the efficiency and usefulness of members of the Society for the public benefit by setting up a high standard of professional education and knowledge, pursuant to the special authority of 10 June 1976 given under section 7(1)(f) of the Friendly Societies Act 1974.
Est. 1968 · LondonFour interactive ways into cybernetics and the Society’s history. Each opens in a new tab.
The Society’s people, ideas and history as an interactive network. Follow any connection to see where it leads.
Open →The Glossary of Management Cybernetics as a web of linked concepts, showing how each term depends on the others.
Open →Places across the UK that matter to cybernetics and systems thinking, each with its story, plus virtual tours.
Open →The Society’s experimental guide to its websites and archive. Ask a question: Alice answers from what she finds and shows her sources.
Open →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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