Social Psychology in the Era of Artificial Intelligence:Research Paradigms and Questions
The era of artificial intelligence is approaching.Artificial intelligence has the powerful potential to reshape scientific para-digms and spark a technological revolution.In addition,paradigms determine the worldview,methodology and normativity of science.In the filed of social psychology,artificial intelligence is profoundly affecting its research paradigms and contents in two aspects.On the one hand,artificial intelligence(e.g.large language models,algorithms)as powerful computational tools complement the methodological limi-tations of traditional social psychology research.This type of research we named as"AI for social psychology".In the preparation phase of experiments,AI can be used as tools for literature review and hypothesis creation.Thereby,in order to test an available hypothesis,AI is capable of simulating human participants'responds,mining natural language text for relevant topics,calculating vectorized semantic information,and analyzing big data samples.On the other hand,some studies have focused on exploring the relationship interaction and between AI and human community.In other words,AI as social agents supplements the objects and contents of social psychology.We la-bel this type of research as"social psychology of AI".Specifically,these studies fall into three categories of measuring AI propensities and capabilities,examining human attitudes and adoption towards AI,and probing the impact of AI on human beings and the society.Fi-nally,we call for a new kind of research which concentrate on utilizing AI-enabled methodologies to solve social issues caused by the salience of AI.
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