Dr. Justin Lane builds AI that takes human behavior seriously. A cognitive and computational social scientist with a D.Phil from the 📝University of Oxford, he is the founder and CEO of 📝CulturePulse, where he builds psychologically realistic digital twins of societies — models that make culture, belief, and conflict quantifiable, empirical, and testable. He pioneered 📝Multi-Agent AI (MAAI): not one monolithic model but systems of many interacting agents, on the principle that groups are nothing if not collections of individuals.
His method is what he calls 📝Cultural Cybernetics — treating a society as a system whose dynamics can be simulated rather than guessed at. He is unromantic about the hype around AI and precise about what a model can and cannot do; he will happily point out that a great deal of AI is, plainly, dumb, and that humans did not machine-learn their way to intelligence. That skepticism is the discipline. The engine behind CulturePulse's 📝ARES platform has been used with the United Nations to model the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and, with academic and government partners, to study radicalization and reconciliation in Northern Ireland, the Balkans, and South Sudan.
He is the author of 📝Understanding Religion Through Artificial Intelligence: Bonding and Belief (Bloomsbury, 2021), the first book on MAAI, and of more than fifty peer-reviewed papers spanning cognitive science, demography, conflict, and artificial intelligence. His work has been covered by outlets including WIRED, and his research on religion, extremism, and misinformation runs through everything CulturePulse does today.
This library is Justin Lane's external brain — the people, organizations, concepts, and projects that make up his world, written down and wired together so the thinking behind the work is legible. Start anywhere; it all connects.