Survey finds social scientists worry most about bias, reproducibility, and replacement
RobbWiller · x · 2026-07-23
The study reports what worried the 460 social scientists it surveyed about LLM-based forecasting.
- Biggest concerns: stereotyping, unequal accuracy across groups, underestimating human variability, reproducibility, replacing human samples, and interpretability.
- The authors say they share those concerns and that LLMs should augment, not replace human research.
- A chart in the post shows these concerns scoring highest on a 0–100 scale.
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