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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Published in:	NBER Working Paper Series
Main Authors:	Manning, Benjamin S, Zhu, Kehang, Horton, John J
Format:	Paper
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc 01.04.2024
Subjects:	Automation Computer simulation Hypotheses Language Large language models
ISSN:	0898-2937
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