Sociology
Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and the Evolution of the Social Sciences
Note: This is an expanded version of a paper presented at the online conference Online Communication and the New World of Scholarship held on October 9, 2020 at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Abstract
In this chapter, I examine the co-evolution of method (along with the technologies/tools that enable various methods) and theory in the social sciences. This is done with an eye towards understanding the eventual role of artificial intelligence1 (which, in the context of this chapter, I consider a part of robotics) in the future evolution of the social sciences.
The chapter examines several examples of how developments in technologies ...
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