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SUMMARY:CDL Seminar: Can Generative AI improve social science? - Professor
  Christopher Bail (Duke University\, USA)
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250211T170000Z
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250211T183000Z
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 at can produce realistic text\, images\, and other human-like outputs is c
 urrently transforming many different industries. Yet it is not yet known h
 ow such tools might influence social science research. I argue Generative 
 AI has the potential to improve survey research\, online experiments\, aut
 omated content analyses\, agent-based models\, and other techniques common
 ly used to study human behavior. In the second section of this article\, I
  discuss the many limitations of Generative AI. I examine how bias in the 
 data used to train these tools can negatively impact social science resear
 ch—as well as a range of other challenges related to ethics\, replicatio
 n\, environmental impact\, and the proliferation of low-quality research. 
 I conclude by arguing that social scientists can address many of these lim
 itations by creating open-source infrastructure for research on human beha
 vior. Such infrastructure is not only necessary to ensure broad access to 
 high-quality research tools\, I argue\, but also because the progress of A
 I will require deeper understanding of the social forces that guide human 
 behavior.\nSpeakers:\nProfessor Christopher Bail (Duke University\, USA)
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