Posts in 2021
Epidemic Modeling as a Means to Reimagine Health Education and Policy Post-COVID

Elise E. Racine and Joanna J. Bryson, Health Education, 11 November 2021.

My first summer at Hertie School I co-ran a small project with Slava Jankin on Agent Based Modelling (ABM) as (data) science in the context of public COVID policy. This paper is the sole published outcome, though see also the Webpage we put together on the project with the most useful links and papers we could find on the scientific application of ABM. This particular paper was primarily the work of the first author, who also extended it into her master’s dissertation at Hertie School.

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Is There an AI Cold War? (pdf)

Joanna J. Bryson and Helena Malikova, Global Perspectives, 2(1), 2021.

Regulation is a means societies use to create the stability, public goods, and infrastructure they need to thrive securely. This policy brief is intended to both document and to address claims of a new AI cold war: a binary competition between the United States and China that is too important for other powers to either ignore or truly participate in directly, beyond taking sides.

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