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Study finds AI models poor proxies for human economic preferences
Original: Simulated responses from large language models are weak proxies for human economic preferences across 74 countries
Research published in Nature finds that simulated responses from large language models are weak proxies for human economic preferences, based on a comparison spanning 74 countries. The findings challenge the growing practice of using AI models to stand in for human survey respondents in economics and social science research, suggesting the models do not reliably reproduce how real people across diverse nations weigh economic trade-offs.
Why now: Researchers and social scientists are actively debating whether large language models can replace human survey participants, and this large cross-country study adds evidence against that practice.
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