AI and the transformation of social science research

Science. 2023 Jun 16;380(6650):1108-1109. doi: 10.1126/science.adi1778. Epub 2023 Jun 15.

Igor Grossmann^{1

2}, Matthew Feinberg³, Dawn C Parker^{2

4}, Nicholas A Christakis⁵, Philip E Tetlock⁶, William A Cunningham^{7

8

9}

¹ Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada.
² Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada.
³ Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁴ School of Planning, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada.
⁵ Yale Institute for Network Science, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
⁶ Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
⁷ Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁸ Vector Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁹ Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.

Abstract

Careful bias management and data fidelity are key.