Stanford Workshop Explores How AI Is Transforming Social Science Research
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Stanford social scientists gathered for a workshop exploring how artificial intelligence is transforming empirical research in social science. Six faculty and alumni presented AI-integrated workflows, findings, and concerns, with consensus that AI tools are changing how research gets done and raising both the quality and ambition of work. The workshop, opened by Guido Imbens, acknowledged uncertainty about where AI is heading but emphasized the need for close attention to the ongoing transformation. The article positions this as potentially the most exciting time in a generation to be a social scientist due to AI-enabled research advances.
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This may be the best moment in a generation to do empirical social science.
Every speaker agreed the tools change how research gets done.
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