Artificial Societies in the Anthropocene: Challenges and Opportunities for Modeling Climate, Conflict, and Cooperation

Shults, F. LeRon; Wildman, Wesley J.; Toft, Monica Duffy; Danielson, Antje

doi:10.1109/wsc52266.2021.9715391

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“…A second and interrelated motivation concerns linking social simulation to ethical concerns, both practically and philosophically (Diallo et al 2021;Mascaro 2010;Shults & Wildman 2020a). Grim (2003) treats modeling as a philosophical methodology, and applies this to the phenomenon of polarization (Grim et al 2012).…”

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“…Previous ABMs have attempted to incorporate values into simulations oriented toward the analysis or evaluation of policies related to topics such as public smoking (Dechesne et al 2013) or the integration of refugees into Dutch society (Boshuijzen-van Burken et al 2020). We believe this approach holds great promise for addressing a wide variety of challenges related to social sustainability both locally and globally (Shults & Wildman 2020a). The "Agent-Based Social Simulation for the COVID-19 Crisis" platform ((L) above) is, to our knowledge, the most developed policy-oriented modeling platform that rigorously includes human values.…”

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The Role of Values in Pandemic Management: An Agent-Based Model

Wildman,

Hodulik,

Shults

2024

JASSS

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The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has made abundantly evident that human behavior is a critical factor in determining whether interventions intended to manage infection spread are effective. Human behavior is driven by decision processes about whether to comply with advice from public-health experts and instructions from officials charged with managing pandemic response within organizations and governmental regions. And guiding those decisions are personal values, often shared with others, which are understudied features of pandemic management. Here, we demonstrate the role of values in a pandemic simulation using The Artificial Organization (TAO), an existing, strongly validated, agent-based, decision-support tool for pandemic management. We enhance TAO by adding human values to create TAO-V, focusing particularly on values related to political ideology, the spread of those values, and the way political values and compliance decisions have interacted in the United States of America (and other nations, usually to a lesser extent). TAO-V confirms that human values are influential factors in a pandemic simulation, which invites testing against real-world data from pandemic-management efforts. Even before real-world testing, the results of this study suggest that publichealth messaging might be more effective if it were to engage values rather than only stress compliance with public-health recommendations.

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The Role of Values in Pandemic Management: An Agent-Based Model

Wildman,

Hodulik,

Shults

2024

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“…[3,41], and forcing them into unsustainable practices. This eventually has ramifications felt by industrial agriculture through international cascades of environmental destruction, famine, war and mass migration (exacerbated by climate change) -scenarios that AL simulations can explore [42,43]. The preferred scenario is an AgTech that doesn't impose a-contextual technology's limitations on local practices.…”

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AgTech that doesn’t cost the Earth: Creating sustainable, ethical and effective agricultural technology that enhances its social and ecological contexts

Dorin¹,

Penn²,

Siqueiros³

2022

The 2022 Conference on Artificial Life

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To feed the growing human population we require increased food production and security, while using less land and causing less environmental damage. Significant changes in agriculture are needed to meet these demands. One widely touted solution is smart, AI-enhanced Agricultural Technology. In this article we argue that improved technology is insufficient to address the needs of many farmers, but that by taking a whole-of-system approach native to Artificial Life we can shift towards creating sustainable, ethical and effective AgTech. This can innovate industrial agriculture in developed nations and benefit small landholders from vulnerable communities, whilst reducing the environmental impacts of food production globally.

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Religion Devolving?

Shults

2023

JCSR

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This article highlights several of the valuable contributions in Religion Evolving by Benjamin Purzycki and Richard Sosis (2022) and offers some material and methodological reflections that are intended to complement their efforts. Their book offers a clear and useful operationalization of religion, emphasizes the importance of interdisciplinary approaches to the phenomena in question, and makes great strides in overcoming the polarizing debate between proponents of the “by-product” and “adaptationist” camps in the cognitive and evolutionary science of religion. The bulk of the current article argues for the importance of building on their efforts by also attending to the conditions under which – and the mechanisms by which – religion can become “maladaptive” in contemporary contexts.

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Artificial Societies in the Anthropocene: Challenges and Opportunities for Modeling Climate, Conflict, and Cooperation

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The Role of Values in Pandemic Management: An Agent-Based Model

The Role of Values in Pandemic Management: An Agent-Based Model

AgTech that doesn’t cost the Earth: Creating sustainable, ethical and effective agricultural technology that enhances its social and ecological contexts

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