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5 Oct 2025

How can we improve rigour and even reproducibility when using AI in social science? This chapter suggests some answers.

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Just add rigour Three do’s and don’ts
Trust the algorithm, not the AI
What’s your positionality, robot
You have to tell the AI what game we are playing right now
Scare quotes, the Turing test, and memory
Put down that thesaurus – an open call to qualitative researchers
The Chinese Room, the Stochastic Parrot and the Anthill
From Prompt Engineering to Context Engineering. And dreaming....
Using generative AI for text analysis, rigorously