ChatGPT seems to be part of every conversation about artificial intelligence since the chatbot was released in November 2022 —including those happening in academia.
The work done in Desmond Upton Patton’s SAFELab at the University of Pennsylvania focuses on AI, computational social sciences and ethics, so when ChatGPT came out, he and his team quickly started playing around with it as a research tool.
Upton Patton, a professor at Penn’s School of Social Policy and Practice (SP2) and director of SAFELab, published a paper earlier this summer about the potential opportunities and challenges of generative AI in the social sciences, specifically social work. His co-authors are fellow researchers at SP2 and Penn’s Annenberg School for Communication, Aviv Y. Landau and Siva Mathiyazhagan.
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