Video now available for “AI and Religion” Webinar: Predicting and Preventing Religious Conflict using MAAI Models

On Wednesday (24 March 2021) I participated in the Webinar series on “AI and Religion,” hosted by the Bruno Kessler Foundation (information about the webinar series available here).

My topic was: “Predicting and Preventing Religious Conflict using Multi-Agent Artificial Intelligence (MAAI) Models” (abstract available here).

Here is a link to the video, which has just been posted on YouTube.

The PPT for my presentation is available here.

Here are links to some of the materials discussed in the webinar:

• The Social Simulation research group at the Institute for Global Development and Planning, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway
• The NORCE Center for Modeling Social Systems
• Link to the video on the refugee crisis model under development
• The “Mutually Escalating Religious Anxiety” model published in the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation.
• The “Metaethical Framework” for computer modeling and social simulation published with Wesley J. Wildman in Human Simulation (Springer 2019).
• Link to the open access book that explains “anthropomorphic promiscuity” and “sociographic prudery”
• “Predicting and preventing religious radicalization” chapter
• “Modeling Terror Management Theory” article
• “Why do the Godless Prosper?” article