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Anthropic's Peter McCrory details how end-to-end AI agents can automate innovation by running social science research pipelines

Surveyed researchers use AI agents primarily to write code.

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Alex Imas#1777@ALEXOLEGIMASOPPeter McCroryPeter McCrory@PETERMCCRORY

To what extent will AI automate innovation? How will social science research change with the advent of agents able to execute research end-to-end? New Anthropic Economic Research from Thomas Lyttelton, Nathan Wilmers, & Maxim Massenkoff out today tackling these questions. 1/6

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QUOTE POSTChenhao Tan#570Chenhao Tan@CHENHAOTAN

I hope that this is due to the Bradley effect. Even in that case, it is still strange.

8:44 PM · May 28, 2026 · 283 Views