What AI Means for Social Science with Brendan O'Connor

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In this episode of What AI Means, Lee Spector speaks with Brendan O’Connor, Associate Professor in the Manning School of Information and Computer Sciences and Co-Director of the Computational Social Science Institute at UMass Amherst. O’Connor discusses how AI is changing social science by expanding the kinds of questions and analyses they can pursue.

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