{"id":10576,"date":"2025-06-25T10:37:51","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T08:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eurocc.nscc.sk\/?p=10576"},"modified":"2025-06-27T09:46:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T07:46:02","slug":"simulovanie-spolocnosti-multiagentove-modely-ai-pre-spolocenske-hnutia-dynamiku-presvedceni-a-narodnu-odolnost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eurocc.nscc.sk\/en\/simulovanie-spolocnosti-multiagentove-modely-ai-pre-spolocenske-hnutia-dynamiku-presvedceni-a-narodnu-odolnost\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Twins of Society: HPC-Powered Simulations"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Digital Twins of Society: HPC-Powered Simulations<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Simulating Societies: Multi-Agent AI Models of Social Movements, Belief Dynamics, and National Resilience<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Join us for a thought-provoking webinar exploring how artificial intelligence and multi-agent simulation technologies are helping researchers understand and predict complex societal dynamics. This session brings together leading experts in cultural cybernetics, cognitive modeling, and national-scale digital twin simulations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Date and Time:<\/strong>
Thursday, July 17th, 2025 | 10:00 AM CEST<\/strong>
Online | free registration<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This webinar is organized by the Slovak National Supercomputing Centre <\/strong>as part of the activities of the EuroCC project.<\/strong> (the National Competence Centre for HPC \u2013 NCC Slovakia<\/strong>) in cooperation with NCC Norway<\/strong> from NCC Portugal<\/strong> , and its aim is to foster dialogue among researchers, policymakers, and organizations working with advanced computing technologies. The webinar will be held online in English.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This webinar explores how advanced artificial intelligence and multi-agent simulations are being used to model the emergence and evolution of social movements, belief systems, and societal\nresilience. Prof. Dr. LeRon Shults will provide a high-level overview of how cultural cybernetics\nand cognitive science inform the modeling of group identities, religiosity, and extremism. Dr.\nJustin Lane will present the technical implementations, showcasing simulations of societal\npolarization, the spread of misinformation, and digital twin frameworks for national policy testing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drawing on real-world deployments with the United Nations, Norwegian government, and\nprojects simulating online and offline social networks to test deradicalization strategies, the\nsession will discuss how AI can ethically and effectively contribute to deradicalization (e.g.,\nMinds.com), pandemic response (e.g., COVID-19 misinformation modeling), and crisis\nprediction (e.g., Israeli-Palestinian tensions). The talk will conclude with a look at the Slovak\ndigital twin initiative and how HPC infrastructure can support future applications. <\/strong>umo\u017e\u0148uje realiz\u00e1ciu t\u00fdchto rozsiahlych simul\u00e1ci\u00ed a ich bud\u00face aplik\u00e1cie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Prof. Dr. F. LeRon Shults<\/strong> \u2013 Cultural cybernetics, extremism, and group identity modeling
Prof.\u202fShults is a professor in Global Development and Social Planning at the University of Agder (Kristiansand, Norway), and serves as scientific director at NORCE\u2019s Center for Modeling Social Systems. With dual doctorates in educational psychology and philosophy of religion, he specializes in cultural cybernetics, applying agent-based simulations to model radicalization, belief systems, and social dynamics. His recent work includes predictive simulations for secularization trends, prosocial behavior, and extremism\u2014showcasing how complex social phenomena can be modeled and forecasted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dr. Justin Lane<\/strong> \u2013 Multi-agent AI, belief dynamics, and simulation infrastructure
Dr. Lane is the co-founder and CEO of CulturePulse AI, and Scientific Director at the DEKK Institute (Bratislava), with affiliations at the Slovak Academy of Sciences. He earned his DPhil in cognitive anthropology from Oxford.
A pioneer in multi-agent AI, he coined the term MAAI to describe psychologically realistic agent simulations that form the basis of social digital twins. His work spans modeling policy impacts, misinformation spread, cultural cohesion, and crisis response, and has received wide coverage in outlets like WIRED, BBC, New York Times\u2014as well as academic acclaim with over 100 peer-reviewed papers and multimedia features.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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