Abstract for: Building System Dynamics Models From the News With AI Assist

This workshop is for instructors who want to learn to build (or help their students learn to build) original System Dynamics (SD) models for a dynamic feedback topic they have read in the news. AI can help students find an appropriate news article containing feedback. A news article will be provided and we will progress through the steps as if we were our students. We will construct a basic first level SD model. Then we will have AI build a beginning stock-flow model and we will critique the difference between the hand created and AI created models. The importance of knowing how to construct a dimensionless multiplier will be discussed. Finally we will attempt to explain the model behavior ourselves followed by having AI explain the model behavior.