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Dynamic Models of Segregation
Thomas C. Schelling · 1971 · Journal of Mathematical Sociology
In Schelling’s model, mild preferences for similar neighbors can produce strongly segregated towns, showing why collective outcomes need not reflect what individuals want.
Original explorable by Vi Hart & Nicky Case Slide adaptation by David T. Lee
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Generative Agents
Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior Joon Sung Park et al. · 2023 · ACM UIST
Language models can become the basis of believable social simulations: agents use memory, reflection, and planning to sustain individual behavior and coordinate with one another.
By David T. Lee
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The AI Economist
The AI Economist: Optimal Economic Policy Design via Two-level Deep Reinforcement Learning Stephan Zheng et al. · 2021 · arXiv
Learning economic policy and behavior together offers a way to design rules that account for how people adapt, using a simulated economy to study the trade-off between equality and productivity.
By David T. Lee
