How Pew Research Center is – and is not – using AI in our work
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THE AI ANGLE
Assisting with data coding, web development, and derivative draftingPew Research Center published guidelines detailing how it incorporates artificial intelligence across its research workflows. The center limits AI to coding assistance, text categorization, and draft editing while barring synthetic survey respondents. Social researchers and reporters can adopt these standards to document the human origins of published data.
THE TEACHING ANGLE
Students can evaluate whether delegating open-ended response coding to software risks altering survey interpretations.Read the original at pewresearch.org Generate teaching or study materials
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