Willer: AI-assisted positivist social science will get faster and clearer
RobbWiller · x · 2026-10-24
Robb Willer envisions social science journals centered on falsifiable theory and data, with papers produced and reviewed using any degree of AI support and 100% open data and analysis. In his view, this work should get scientifically better, faster, clearer, more transparent, and more cumulative in the next few years—and researchers shouldn't stand in the way of that progress.
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