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General Social Agents
Benjamin S. Manning, John J. Horton
Useful social science theories predict behavior across settings. However, applying a theory to make predictions in new settings is challenging: rarely can it be done without ad hoc…
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Automated Social Science: Language Models as Scientist and Subjects
Benjamin S. Manning, Kehang Zhu, John J. Horton
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 mode…