Coronavirus: Actually, we don’t have an app for that politi.co/2zsoOw6 via POLITICO Reporting on our ASSOCC framework

"I myself am made somewhat uncomfortable by my own arguments...There really is such a thing as surveillance creep."-Alan Rozenshtein This honest admission captures a tragic reality. We lack robust frameworks for resisting normalization & repurposing. theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

Analyse impact #corovanvirus w/ #ABM #socialsimulation: arxiv.org/abs/2004.12809 Frank Dignum @vdignum Paul Davidsson Amineh Ghorbani Mijke vd Hurk Maarten Jensen Christian Kammler Fabian Lorig Luis G Ludescher Alexander Melchior Ree Mellema, Cezara Pastrav @LoisVanhe harko verhagen

“What if rather than hurrying back to a pre-lockdown “business as usual” to revive economies hammered by the coronavirus pandemic, countries built a new normal where the fight against climate change was paramount?”

I like the ‘accurate but misleading’ - many performance metrics in ML signal misleading accuracy, let’s unpack this terminology further

SCOOP: Google has drastically rolled back its diversity work due to fears of being perceived as anti-conservative. Sources say employees have been pushed out, programs cut, and workers have been discouraged from even using the word diversity anymore nbcnews.com/news/us-news/c…

Our article on "Analysing the Combined Health, Social and Economic Impacts of the Corovanvirus Pandemic Using Agent-Based Social Simulation", published in Minds and Machines, is now online link.springer.com/article/10.100… #responsibleAI #Covid_19 #coronavirus #socialsimulation #abms

New logo! (Thanks to Kurt Kreulen)

@vdignum Michael Wooldridge assocc It’s not the software that was the actual problem, but the effect of control measures on the reproduction number - a parameter model. It dropped faster than anticipated (and I know why). But I agree, that software for bug decisions must follow high standards and opneness.

SELECTED DEATHS vs COVID-19 #Sweden assocc worldlifeexpectancy.com/selected-death…

Check out our new video of the Unity interface to the assocc simulation tool: youtube.com/watch?v=BhR0jz… The tool can be downloaded from our webpage: simassocc.org #CoronaCrisis #COVIDー19

Join this week's #frAIday: Cezara Pastrav on "Agent models in Unity – reaching outside academia" reporting on the assocc project on #coronacrisis simulation. To register for this and coming #frAIday seminars: bit.ly/frAIday

Join the assocc session at SocSimFesT2021: simassocc.org/assocc-at-socs… European Social Simulation Association #socialsimulation #ABM

One year ago we joined Twitter! Since then assocc has generated many insights into the #CoronaCrisis, several papers, workshops, and our book "Social Simulation for Crises" is coming up soon, published by Springer Nature #agentbasedmodel #simulation #AI #MyTwitterAnniversary

ASSOCC's work made national news in Sweden. @tv4 TV4 Nyheterna evening news 23 April: tv4play.se/program/nyhete… #AI #responsibleAI #socialsimulation #agentbasedsimulation #ABM Frank Dignum

The simulation tool that is being developed at Umeå University to help decision-makers in their actions to prevent the spread of corona now shows excellent results. Frank Dignum assocc #artificialintelligence #AI #covid19

The book does not just publish results from our simulations, but also gives an extensive background of the models used, a chapter on validation of the simulations and also lessons learned from the whole project. #simulation #coronacrisis #agentsimulation #ABM #AI #responsibleAI

A new day packed with tutorials: AI for policy, neural networks, ethics, robot learning, argumentation, narrative frameworks In the photo Frank Dignum discussing human behaviour models in social simulation for policy #acai2021 #AI #responsibleAI #MachineLearning #Robotics

Congratulations to Amineh Ghorbani on her promotion to associate professor!!👏👏👏