Recently, Dr. Ben Goertzel, CEO of SingularityNET convened the “COVID-19 Summit” to bring veterans in AI and Data Science researchers with epidemiologists, front-line doctors, and policymakers to look at how we handled the situation so far and what are the expectations going forward.

One of the main themes from this Summit was the need for complex systems models such as agent-based models to inform policy. During this pandemic, at times, every policymaker around the world felt they were going into this pandemic without the information that they needed, even though we’ve dealt with other outbreaks such as SARS, MERS, etc..