AI4MSD
Using AI to Enhance MSD Research
The CIS Lab co-leads a Working Group for MultiSector Dynamics (MSD), a community of practice based at universities and national labs across the United States. The MSD community aims to improve our understanding of the co-evolution of human and natural systems over time, and build the next generation of tools that bridge across sectors (energy, water, land, economy) and scales (spatial, temporal), and offer a holistic view of systems-of-systems.
Our Working Group focuses specifically on the opportunities offered by AI for MSD research: Recent advances in Artificial intelligence (AI) are quickly changing the landscape of tools available to conceptualize, execute, and disseminate research. We posit that research efforts in multi-sector systems can benefit from these advances. Our new working group will identify and quantify opportunities and risks associated with recent AI advances and their implementation in MSD science. Through webinars, trainings, conference sessions, and a community-wide data competition, our working group will investigate how AI can 1) expand the breadth and depth of data available for model development, 2) help us understand model structures, and 3) support model diagnostics of coupled model chains. We will also explore AI techniques that expand the current tools available for control problems (e.g., Reinforcement Learning), thereby allowing us to operate and plan highly nonlinear and interconnected Human-Earth systems.
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