QSS 45 Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Social Science
This course introduces contemporary methods in machine learning for social scientific inquiry. The growth in AI has produced a technological arms race between the generation of information and media versus its analysis. As a consequence of this arms race, standard computational tools like text-mining approaches regularly used by social scientists to analyze data are often insufficient for many tasks that involve AI-generated material, such as identifying misinformation in podcasts and YouTube videos. Analyzing this data is crucial for the next generation of computational social science, and to understand evolving digital ecosystems.