Jason Tucker

I am a researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the AI Policy Lab, the Department of Computing Science, Umeå University. I am also a Visting Research Fello funded by WASP-HS. Within this I am particularly interested in developing interdisciplinary approaches to better support policy making on the future role of AI in healthcare. Previously I have worked on law and policy reform, citizenship and public sector digitalisation, having done so for the United Nations, civil society, industry and in academia.

AI Policy Lab Abstract As AI becomes integral to critical civil sectors like healthcare, its governance can no longer be divorced from international security. This paper argues that NATO must play a str

Conference paper, Annual Modeling and Simulation Conference (ANNSIM'25) Abstract The application of Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation (ABMS) has few established guidelines and oftensuffers from insuffdifferent types of model documentation in light of the European Union’s AI Act (AI Act). Our analysisreveals that best practices are often implemented together but ultimately reinforce the pre-existing viewthat ABMS frequently lacks adequate model documentation. This deficiency hinders evaluability, makingit difficult to conduct quality assurance prior to application and meaningful evaluation post application.We propose a framework that highlights the importance of different types of model documentation and theattributes they enable, which are valuable to both modelers and policy actors, albeit for different reasons.The AI Act provides a valuable opportunity to improve model documentation. By proactively developingand establishing guidelines, we can stay ahead of emerging legal requirements.

Proceedings of the Eigth AAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (2025). Abstract Contemporary AI policy is dominated by hegemonic neoliberal ideology, embedding assumptions of individualism, ratio

Public Health Abstract The article examines the World Health Organization’s (WHO) discourse on artificial intelligence (AI) in their foresight exercises, doing so by drawing on the analytical framework

Venue: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm or online Research seminar with Jason Tucker, researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies and an Adjunct Associate Professor at t

Jason Tucker: Why We Need to Talk About the Global Politics of AI and Healthcare

Research seminar with Jason Tucker, researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the AI Policy Lab, the Department of Computing Science, Umeå University. He is

Constellations Introduction Initial hopes of the democratizing potential of the internet are increasingly replaced by fear that a fragmented and unedited public sphere unleashes the destructive forces o

Social Indicators Research Abstract The research focuses on developing a computational model (agent-based) to describe and analyse the structure and evolution of a conspiracy bubble within Facebook. Thedescriptiveexperimental

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