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AI Coding Agents in Social Science: Methodologically Diverse, Empirically Consistent, Interpretively Vulnerable
Meysam Alizadeh, Fabrizio Gilardi, Mohsen Mosleh +1
The deployment of LLM-based agents in scientific analysis raises opposing concerns: that agents may reduce methodological diversity, or that they may amplify the analytic flexibili…
AI Coding Agents Can Reproduce Social Science Findings
Meysam Alizadeh, Mohsen Mosleh, Fabrizio Gilardi +2
Recent anecdotal evidence suggests that AI coding agents can reproduce published findings when provided with original data and code; yet systematic evaluation across social science…
Unsupervised Elicitation of Moral Values from Language Models
Meysam Alizadeh, Fabrizio Gilardi, Zeynab Samei
As AI systems become pervasive, grounding their behavior in human values is critical. Prior work suggests that language models (LMs) exhibit limited inherent moral reasoning, leadi…
Web-Browsing LLMs Can Access Social Media Profiles and Infer User Demographics
Meysam Alizadeh, Fabrizio Gilardi, Zeynab Samei +1
Large language models (LLMs) have traditionally relied on static training data, limiting their knowledge to fixed snapshots. Recent advancements, however, have equipped LLMs with w…
Open-Source LLMs for Text Annotation: A Practical Guide for Model Setting and Fine-Tuning
Meysam Alizadeh, Maël Kubli, Zeynab Samei +5
This paper studies the performance of open-source Large Language Models (LLMs) in text classification tasks typical for political science research. By examining tasks like stance,…
ChatGPT Outperforms Crowd-Workers for Text-Annotation Tasks
Fabrizio Gilardi, Meysam Alizadeh, Maël Kubli
Many NLP applications require manual data annotations for a variety of tasks, notably to train classifiers or evaluate the performance of unsupervised models. Depending on the size…
Psychological and Personality Profiles of Political Extremists
Meysam Alizadeh, Ingmar Weber, Claudio Cioffi-Revilla +2
Global recruitment into radical Islamic movements has spurred renewed interest in the appeal of political extremism. Is the appeal a rational response to material conditions or is…