Lots of provocations here, looking forward to reading. Its a brave new world for social science!
I'm optimisic about automating the "boring parts" of research, but pessimistic about implications of the deluge of slop (its bad enough already).
Two threads I find interesting re agentic research:
Thomas Davidson
What can we learn from automating an entire quantitative social science paper, from prompt to finished product? Thread about ongoing work with @natewilmers.bsky.social 1/12
Paper: osf.io/preprints/so...
