Artificial Intelligence and the Social and Behavioral Sciences
Intelligence would generally be reckoned as the province of the social and behavioral sciences, so why is artificial intelligence so often relegated to the sole care of engineers and entrepreneurs? Whether in the crafting of the algorithms that govern computer cognition, or in the channeling (or mitigating) its effects on organic beings, social and behavioral science has a necessary place at the head table. This collection of articles highlights both the uses of social and behavioral sciences in guiding the burgeoning field of artificial intelligence, and the use of artificial intelligence by social and behavioral scientists.
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Philosophy Has Been – and Should Be – Integral to AI
Philosophy has been instrumental to AI since its inception, and should still be an important contributor as artificial intelligence evolves..
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Using Advanced Machine Learning to Better Understand the Emotional Intensity of Online Reviews
In this article, Sanghyub John Lee and Rouxelle de Villiers reflect on the inspiration of the research article, “Unveiling Emotional Intensity in Online Reviews: […]
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Rethinking Approaches to Management Research During Times Marked by Rare, Yet Increasingly Impactful Events
In this article, Vanessa C. Hasse reflects upon what drove her interest in researching rare but impactful events, as well as the […]
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New SSRC Project Aims to Develop AI Principles for Private Sector
The new AI Disclosures Project seeks to create structures that both recognize the commercial enticements of AI while ensuring that issues of safety and equity are front and center in the decisions private actors make about AI deployment.
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AI Upskilling Can and Should Empower Business School Faculty
If schools provide the proper support and resources, they will help educators move from anxiety to empowerment when integrating AI into the classroom.
Webinar: The Hauser Policy Impact Fund Webinar Series: Navigating the Era of Artificial Intelligence Part 2: The Role of Social Sciences
The National Academies of Sciences will be holding part two of The Hauser Policy Impact Fund Webinar Series on July 25, 2024. […]
Workshop: Human and Organizational Factors in Artificial Intelligence Risk Management (Safety in Context: Culture, Processes, and Frameworks)
On July 2, 2024, the National Academies of Sciences will hold the fourth installment of their workshop series on Human and Organizational […]
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How AI-Integration is Changing the Workplace
The authors describe how their study investigated how middle managers perceive the impacts of AI-system integration on their work characteristics in the financial services industry.
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Why Social Science? Because It Can Help Contribute to AI That Benefits Society
Social sciences can also inform the design and creation of ethical frameworks and guidelines for AI development and for deployment into systems. Social scientists can contribute expertise: on data quality, equity, and reliability; on how bias manifests in AI algorithms and decision-making processes; on how AI technologies impact marginalized communities and exacerbate existing inequities; and on topics such as fairness, transparency, privacy, and accountability.
Webinar – Navigating the Era of Artificial Intelligence: Achieving Human-AI Harmony
This two-part webinar series, funded through the Hauser Policy Impact Fund, will explore the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education’s […]
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Third Edition of ‘The Evidence’: How Can We Overcome Sexism in AI?
This month’s installment of The Evidence explores how leading ethics experts are responding to the urgent dilemma of gender bias in AI. […]
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To Better Forecast AI, We Need to Learn Where Its Money Is Pointing
By carefully interrogating the system of economic incentives underlying innovations and how technologies are monetized in practice, we can generate a better understanding of the risks, both economic and technological, nurtured by a market’s structure.
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Free Online Course Reveals The Art of ChatGPT Interactions
You’ve likely heard the hype around artificial intelligence, or AI, but do you find ChatGPT genuinely useful in your professional life? A free course offered by Sage Campus could change all th
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Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence in the Complex Environment of Megaprojects: Implications for Practitioners and Project Organizing Theory
The authors review the ways in which data analytics and artificial intelligence can engender more stability and efficiency in megaprojects. They evaluate the present and likely future use of digital technology—particularly with regard to construction projects — discuss the likely benefits, and also consider some of the challenges around digitization.
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Why Don’t Algorithms Agree With Each Other?
David Canter reviews his experience of filling in automated forms online for the same thing but getting very different answers, revealing the value systems built into these supposedly neutral processes.
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NSF Responsible Tech Initiative Looking at AI, Biotech and Climate
The U.S. National Science Foundation’s new Responsible Design, Development, and Deployment of Technologies (ReDDDoT) program supports research, implementation, and educational projects for multidisciplinary, multi-sector teams
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What Do We Know about Plagiarism These Days?
In the following Q&A, Roger J. Kreuz, a psychology professor who is working on a manuscript about the history and psychology of plagiarism, explains the nature and prevalence of plagiarism and the challenges associated with detecting it in the age of AI.
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Did Turing Miss the Point? Should He Have Thought of the Limerick Test?
David Canter is horrified by the power of readily available large language technology.
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How Intelligent is Artificial Intelligence?
Cryptocurrencies are so last year. Today’s moral panic is about AI and machine learning. Governments around the world are hastening to adopt […]
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Maintaining Anonymity In Double-Blind Peer Review During The Age of Artificial Intelligence
The double-blind review process, adopted by many publishers and funding agencies, plays a vital role in maintaining fairness and unbiasedness by concealing the identities of authors and reviewers. However, in the era of artificial intelligence (AI) and big data, a pressing question arises: can an author’s identity be deduced even from an anonymized paper (in cases where the authors do not advertise their submitted article on social media)?
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Conscious Empathic AI in Service
Empathic consciousness in AI opens new horizons in service that puts the relationship between the machines and the humans in exciting and uncharted territories.
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Interview Describes Biases That Manifest In Artificial Intelligence Systems
Meredith Broussard, one of the few Black women doing research in artificial intelligence, would like to see us tackling the problems that have been shown to be prevalent in today’s AI systems, especially the issue of bias based on race, gender, or ability.
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Human-Centered AI: Carnegie Mellon University Heads New NSF-Funded Institute For Societal Decision Making
Carnegie Mellon University has received a five-year, $20 million award from the U.S. National Science Foundation to lead an institute that will employ social scientists and artificial intelligence researchers to create human-centric AI tools to help people address challenges on the job.
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How Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming Psychotherapy
Machine learning tools like chatbots and virtual assistants can emulate the work of psychologists and psychotherapists and are even helping to address people’s basic therapeutic needs.
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Can You Be My Teammate? Human-Robot Teams in Organizations
The topic of robots and humans working together in teams, so-called mixed human-robot teams, is of particular interest, as teams are the norm in the workplace for many of us.
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Harnessing the Tide, Not Stemming It: AI, HE and Academic Publishing
Who will use AI-assisted writing tools — and what will they use them for? The short answer, says Katie Metzler, is everyone and for almost every task that involves typing.
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Survey Explores How College Students Feel About Using AI To Complete Coursework
Artificial intelligence tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT language model could make completing college coursework as simple as asking a computer questions and getting answers at the click of a button (to the prospective horror of some professors). In fact, 61 percent of college students say using AI tools will become the new normal, but does that new normal involve students learning or machines learning?
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The Trouble with Bootlaces: Treading on Artificial and General Intelligence
David Canter considers some implications of ChatGPT and what it tells us about real intelligence, general, artificial or otherwise.
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Academic Publishers and the Challenges of AI
The role of AI in the production of research papers is rapidly moving from being a futuristic vision, towards an everyday reality; a situation with significant consequences for research integrity and the detection of fraudulent research. Rebecca Lawrence and Sabina Alam argue that for publishers, collaboration and open research workflows are key to ensuring the reliability of the scholarly record.
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How ChatGPT Could Transform Higher Education
ChatGPT is by no means a perfect accessory for the modern academic – but it might just get there.
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Thinking About Thinking: The Nexus of Neuroscience, Psychology and AI Research
The authors have identified a convergence among architectures, reflecting a combination of neural, behavioral and computational studies and so have begun a communitywide effort to capture this convergence.
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NIST Report: There’s More to AI Bias Than Biased Data
According to NIST’s Reva Schwartz, bias manifests itself not only in artificial intelligence algorithms and the data used to train them, but also in the societal context in which AI systems are used.
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The Robot Will See You Now
David Canter follows his concern that psychologists are losing contact with people by considering how computers are presented as replacements for human ‘intelligence’. This ignores the importance of in situ person to person contact, which has been shown by the COVID pandemic to be so crucial for people.
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Will Artificial Intelligence Foster Plagiarism?
At the moment, little guidance, policy or oversight is available regarding technology, AI and academic integrity for teachers and educational leaders.
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Beyond Human – Everyday Bots and AI
As I write this, I am using text-to-speech technology, a nifty online feature that enables the reader to listen to, rather than […]
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AI Tool Guides Researchers to Coronavirus Insights
The big idea The scientific community worldwide has mobilized with unprecedented speed to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic, and the emerging research output […]
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The Monotony of Transcription: Who’s Revolutionizing the Process?
Transcribing can be a pain, and although recent progress in speech recognition software has helped, it remains a challenge. Speech recognition programs, do, however, raise ethical/consent issues: what if person-identifiable interview data is transcribed or read by someone who was not given the consent to do so? Furthermore, some conversational elements aren’t transcribed well by pattern recognition programs.
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AI May Usurp the Market in Guiding Public Policy Decisions
Most institutions see the market as the only legitimate form of organization, but different visions towards public policy, some involving artificial intelligence, have been the subject of consideration from academics and politicians alike. Under what circumstances, and to what extent, could artificial intelligence replace the market as the end-all guiding force in crafting reasonable public policy? Brexit may play a leading role in the transition.
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What Can We Afford to Forget If Machines Do Our Remembering?
Outsourcing our memories — or actually forgetting once-vital skills that no longer matter in our daily lives — has always been with humanity. But how does the drift to artificial intelligence reflect what’s always been the case versus what should be a special case?
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Microsite Offers Look at Artificial Intelligence
In the latest of its monthly series of interdisciplinary microsites addressing important public issues, SAGE Publishing is offering free access to a suite academic articles that focus on artificial intelligence.
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Can Artificial Intelligence Improve Peer Review and Publishing Itself?
The founder of StateReviewer outlines a future where humans are written out of the publication process by artificial intelligence. But is the goal of eradicating bias and other malignancies potentially opening the door to a new set of ills?
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Hoopla Aside, Turing’s Test Remains Unbeaten
The latest attempt to show a machine can pass itself off as human relied a little too heavily on letter of Turing’s test and not its spirit.