Ilia Sucholutsky, Katherine M. Collins, Nori Jacoby, Bill D. Thompson, Robert D. Hawkins
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Abstract
Large language models (LLMs) are already transforming the study of individual cognition, but their application to studying collective cognition has been underexplored. We lay out how LLMs may be able to address the complexity that has hindered the study of collectives and raise possible risks that warrant new methods.