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Research Axes

  1. AI and the Methodologies of Social Sciences

    • How do AI tools reshape the methodologies of research in social sciences?
    • What opportunities and challenges do AI tools of deep machine learning create for knowledge creation and diffusion in social sciences?
  2. The Impact of AI on Contemporary Major Issues in the World Today

    • How do AI tools enable us to study issues of international migration and international political economy?
    • What are the policy implications of AI driven research for international migration and international political economy?
    • How would AI shape the system, norms, and practices of democratic governance?
    • What are the implications of AI knowledge for environmental studies and policy?
  3. Implications and Challenges of AI-Produced Knowledge for the Social Science Epistemologies

    • How must practices of knowledge dissemination such as teaching change to adapt to the challenges and opportunities that AI tools such as ChatGPT will increasingly create?
    • What epistemological norms of research and teaching must be constructed in a world where AI tools are freely available to students, teachers, and researchers?
    • What practices and norms of critical thinking must be built to play their purported roles in a world dominated with AI-freely produced information and knowledge?