Epitome: Pioneering an Experimental Platform for AI-Social Science Integration
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01061v2
- Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2025 16:03:56 GMT
- Title: Epitome: Pioneering an Experimental Platform for AI-Social Science Integration
- Authors: Jingjing Qu, Kejia Hu, Jun Zhu, Wenhao Li, Teng Wang, Zhiyun Chen, Yulei Ye, Chaochao Lu, Aimin Zhou, Xiangfeng Wang, James Evans,
- Abstract summary: We introduce Epitome, the world's first open experimental platform dedicated to the deep integration of artificial intelligence and social science.<n>Epitome focuses on the interactive impacts of AI on individuals, organizations, and society during its real-world deployment.<n>With its canvas-style, user-friendly interface, Epitome enables researchers to easily design and run complex experimental scenarios.
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- Abstract: The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into social science experiments represents a transformative approach to understanding human-AI interactions and their societal impacts. We introduce Epitome, the world's first open experimental platform dedicated to the deep integration of artificial intelligence and social science. Rooted in theoretical foundations from management, communication studies, sociology, psychology, and ethics, Epitome focuses on the interactive impacts of AI on individuals, organizations, and society during its real-world deployment. It constructs a theoretical support system through cross-disciplinary experiments. The platform offers a one-stop comprehensive experimental solution spanning "foundation models-complex application development-user feedback" through seven core modules, while embedding the classical "control-comparison-comparative causal logic" of social science experiments into multilevel human-computer interaction environments, including dialogues, group chats, and multi-agent virtual scenarios. With its canvas-style, user-friendly interface, Epitome enables researchers to easily design and run complex experimental scenarios, facilitating systematic investigations into the social impacts of AI and exploration of integrated solutions.To demonstrate its capabilities, we replicated three seminal social science experiments involving LLMs, showcasing Epitome's potential to streamline complex experimental designs and produce robust results, suitable for publishing in the top selective journals. Our findings highlight the platform's utility in enhancing the efficiency and quality of human-AI interactions, providing valuable insights into the societal implications of AI technologies. Epitome thus offers a powerful tool for advancing interdisciplinary research at the intersection of AI and social science, with potential applications in policy-making, ...
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