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AI Surrogates and Illusions of Generalizability in Cognitive Science Private Project Public Project

2025-10-23

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<p>Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have generated enthusiasm for using AI simulations of human research participants to generate new knowledge about human cognition and behavior. This vision of ‘AI Surrogates’ promises to enhance research in cognitive science by addressing longstanding challenges to the generalizability of human subjects research. AI Surrogates are envisioned as expanding the diver...

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Literature Corpus work: bf3c3d2d-9405-55fc-a963-ece07824b9ef
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/d5z3q_v1

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