All memos tagged #multi-agent-artificial-intelligence

De-platforming is the content-moderation practice of removing undesired actors from social media platforms such as YouTube. It has become a default tool against disinformation and extreme speech, yet...

The Censorship Effect is research from CulturePulse and collaborators — including Kevin McCaffree, F. LeRon Shults, Daryl Davis, and Bill Ottman — examining what actually happens when social...

A stability map is CulturePulse's model-derived picture of where a society is holding together and where it is at risk of coming apart. Rather than a static snapshot of opinion, it renders social...

Social instability has become a central concern for governments, investors, and global stakeholders, and the cognitive dynamics of paramilitary organizations sit at its core. Recruitment, in-group...

Is radicalization reinforced by social media censorship? The question reframes a common assumption: that removing extremist content from a platform reduces the extremism. To test it, Justin Lane,...

Social scientists long held that religious groups were too complex to forecast. A body of computational work argues otherwise: that fundamentalism, extremism, and radicalization can be predicted on...

Simulating Religious Violence is an 86-minute feature documentary that follows an expert crew of computer scientists and religion scholars on a three-year effort to apply computer simulation and...

Understanding Religion Through Artificial Intelligence: Bonding and Belief (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021) is the first book on Multi-Agent AI (MAAI). It argues that religion and social behavior are not...

Agent-based modeling is a computational method that represents a system as a population of autonomous, interacting agents — individuals, or collective entities such as households, firms, or groups —...

ARES — Automated Risk Estimation — is the flagship AI platform built by CulturePulse, the company I founded. It constructs psychologically realistic digital twins of target populations and audiences,...

A digital twin is a psychologically realistic simulation of a human population or society — a working model populated by many AI agents whose beliefs, values, and behaviors are calibrated to mirror...

Multi-Agent Artificial Intelligence (MAAI) is Justin Lane's signature method for modeling human societies: instead of training one monolithic model, you build a simulation out of many interacting...