Notes on the Future of Quantitative Social Science

Author

Rohan Alexander

Published

May 8, 2026

Preface

Overview

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Motivation

Chapters

  • Alexander, Monica, “Reflections on using AI tools to aid in quantitative social science research”
  • Alexander, Rohan, “Evaluation rules everything around me”
  • Argyle, Lisa P., Ethan C. Busby, Joshua R. Gubler, “The Science of Quantitative Social Science in an Age of Artificial Intelligence”
  • Békés, Gabor, “Teaching data analysis with agentic AI for social science students”
  • Briggs, Ryan, “As AI Lowers the Cost of Research, Adjudication and Attention Will Become the Bottlenecks”
  • Brodeur, Abel, Bruno Barbarioli, “The Shifting Production Function: AI, Reproducibility, and the Future of Quantitative Social Science”
  • Burnham, Mike, “All Models Are Wrong, But Some Are Trending”
  • Cochrane, Chris, and Mike Cowen, “Research Transparency and Collaboration in the Era of Generative AI Requires Open, Clean Code”
  • Crabtree, Charles, Valentina Gonzalez-Rostani, and Jae Yeon Kim, “Failing Faster, Learning Better: Agentic AI and Empirical Social Science Research”
  • Davidson, Thomas, “A relational approach to agentic AI in social science research: Projects, roles, and tasks”
  • Eads, Alicia, and Fedor Dokshin, “Fault Lines: Inequality and the Future of Quantitative Social Science in the Age of Artificial Intelligence”
  • Goldstein, Josh, “TBD”
  • González-Bailón, Sandra, “TBD”
  • Heiss, Andrew, “AI for Me, Not (Yet) for Thee? Desirable Difficulties and Deliberate Friction with LLMs”
  • Munger, Kevin, “AI Allows More Diversity in the Forms of Social Science”
  • Musulan, Andreea Jean-François Godbout, “Epistemic Standards and the Next Generation of Scholars”
  • Paci, Simone, “With Great Powers: A Practical Guide to Agentic AI for Social Science Research”
  • Sachdeva, Pratik, and Dennis Feehan, “Agentic AI and the Thawing of Frozen Data in Social Science”
  • Sekeres, Gabriel, “Optimal Editorial Screening Under Cheap Testing”
  • Vilhuber, Lars, “Curation and Reproducibility in an Artificial Intelligence World: Challenges and Solutions for Scientific Research”
  • Vivalt, Eva, “On Benchmarks”
  • Wu, Patrick, “Computational Social Scientists Need to Care About the Competitiveness of the AI Market”

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