AI coding tools are making fast social-science foresight experiments much cheaper
weballergy · x · 2026-07-22
The authors clarify that the paper’s models are not definitive; they are meant as an informative illustration for how these questions should be approached going forward.
- The goal is to encourage rapid formal experimentation as foresight in computational social science.
- They argue AI coding tools now make it much cheaper to move from qualitative speculation to testable predictions.
- The paper is positioned as a preliminary step toward broader work on how AI systems and social norms co-evolve.
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