AI is claimed to handle essentially all technical parts of empirical social science research

A researcher argues powerful AI models can do essentially any technical empirical social science research. They say they no longer write data-collection or analysis code and see growing expectations for AI-assisted reproducibility checks in working papers, even as AI writing has gotten worse. Humans still need to choose questions, interpret findings and communicate them, they argue, while institutions independent of AI labs should verify knowledge claims and direct research.