Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering

Validating Generative AI-Based Social Science

On Feb. 20, the Center for Human-Computer Interaction + Design convened an interdisciplinary group to discuss the validity and trustworthiness of social and behavioral data simulated by large language ...
The Conversation

Beyond the hype: How AI could change the game for social science research

Igor Grossmann receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Ontario Ministry of Research, Innovation and Science, The John Templeton Foundation, and the ...
Inside Higher Ed

Can We Trust Social Science Research?

Is social science research trustworthy? The economist Noah Smith raises this question in a recent piece entitled “How many of our ‘facts’ about society health, and the economy are fake?” As he points ...
National Academies of Sciences%2c Engineering%2c and Medicine

Research Training in the Biomedical, Behavioral, and Clinical Research Sciences

Basic behavioral and social sciences research is indispensible to the mission of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Not only do psycho-social-biological factors directly affect disease outcomes ...