New Instruments
Yamil VelezMusings about technology, social science, and culture
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The Fairest Test
I grew up in South Florida, surrounded by people allergic to the cold. I had only set foot in the Northeast twice before. My first meeting was with Milt Lodge.
I had spent hours in the library reading The Oxford Handbook of Political Psych...
All Hail Our Robot Overlords?
A month ago, I wrote about the coming AI crisis in survey research.
As agentic systems become harder to distinguish from humans, and as more respondents begin to delegate answers to AI, the polling industry faces two risks: one rooted in...
Surveys That Listen
I upskilled during the pandemic. Like many people stuck at home in 2020, I had time and anxiety, and I put both to work. I was comfortable with Python, thanks to a PhD course on agent-based models with Oleg Smirnov, but I still felt like I...
Who Answered This Survey?
A bot farm spins up a hundred survey accounts, each linked to a virtual private server running agentic models with headless browsers. The first instance is a real person. She takes the survey at a natural pace while the system records her h...
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I'm an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. My work explores the potential for generative artificial intelligence to enhance our understanding of public opinion through adaptive surveys.
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