FDS Workshop: AI for Social Science Research Methods

Wednesday, May 20, 2026 - Friday, May 22, 2026
5:30PM - 2:30PM

Location: Kline Tower 14th Floor, 219 Prospect St, New Haven, CT 06511

Social scientists are increasingly incorporating AI into their designs, data collection, analyses, and workflows. Alongside rapid adoption, important methodological questions remain: What are the principled approaches to validating measurements via AI tools? To what extent are AI-generated observations interchangeable with those from human respondents — and what does that mean for the future of survey research?

This workshop convenes researchers working on the methods of AI-enabled social science. We welcome submissions that develop new methodological frameworks, propose evaluation strategies, introduce tools or benchmarks, or present empirical findings that clarify when and how AI improves — or complicates — social science inference.

Hosted by the Yale Institute for the Foundations of Data Science (FDS), the workshop will bring together a small group of scholars working on methodological innovation across sociology, economics, political science, public health, statistics, computer science, and related fields.

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