News Summary

• Researchers across the social sciences are sounding the alarm after finding the fingerprints of artificial intelligence and considering the implications.
• The explosion in the use and power of AI models touches researchers across all academic fields.
• One journal has already chronicled a vast increase in the number of manuscripts it has received that were wholly or mostly prepared using AI tools.
• But it’s not all doom and gloom.
• An alternative view of the latest AI systems is that they could transform social science by making its findings more robust.