Automated Social Science: Language Models as Scientist and Subjects

We present an approach for automatically generating and testing, in silico social scientific hypotheses. This automation is made possible by recent advances in large language models (LLM), but the key feature of the approach is the use of structural causal models. Structural causal models provide a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Manning, Benjamin S.
Other Authors: Horton, John J.
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2024
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/157089