LLM Social Simulation and Agent-Based Modeling

I'm interested in generative agent-based modeling that can plausibly help to improve policy and advance social science knowledge.

Key References

  1. 2026 · PaperMechanism Plausibility in Generative Agent-Based ModelingACM FAccT
  2. 2026 · WorkshopPoliSim@CHI 2026: LLM Agent Simulation for PolicyACM CHI Extended Abstracts

More work in this topic

A not-totally-exhaustive (because there’s a lot of overlap between these themes) list of “outputs” that meet this theme.

  1. 2025 · TalkA Data Flow Perspective on "AI Social Simulation": Will Recent AI Advances Enable New Social Science, Destroy Ecosystems for Knowledge, or Something More Subdued?University of Washington CSSS Seminar