Cory J. Clark

Kudos to CUDOS: Resurrecting Mertonian principles to remedy politicized science

Science is the most effective system humans have developed to understand reality. Like all systems, it is flawed and subject to bias and error. Reforms such as the Open Science movement seek to address these issues by institutionalizing long-standing Mertonian norms (communalism, universalism, disinterestedness, organi...

Artificial intelligences and human scientists exhibit complementary strengths in theory building

We investigate the effectiveness of artificial intelligences (AI)-specifically large language models (LLMs)-relative to human scientists at high-level cognitive tasks in social science such as theory formulation, predictions of novel empirical results, and theory revision in response to new evidence. The research domai...

Refining the role of behavioural and social sciences in pandemic response post-COVID-19.