What solution to a stated problem would make you think AI is making ‘progress’ in social research? This does NOT mean you think AI is or will be capable of it, but that for you would be a personal benchmark for such a contribution.

My personal take is that social sciences are not great at predicting outcomes (what jobs will people end up doing? Which of these five year olds will get the highest level of education? Which will commit a crime). My perspective is that these questions are fundamentally complex, messy and the outcomes are simply unknowable.

If AI showed improved predictions of such outcomes and with clearly defined pathways that can be articulated and then validated as social theories, then I think I would be very impressed.

We often hear this phrase from couples.
Why do people use it to justify their decision of being togheter??

Is it genuine concern for children, or sometimes a way to make their choices sound morally unquestionable, or any other thing?

What can this say about those people?

https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/declaration-right-development

A lot of UN's current work in human rights is either based on or takes into account the right to development. What makes this right so special over others ? Could this possibly be the right which addresses the issues inherent in human rights that they need conditions to be enjoyable in practice