arXiv AI
3d ago

Mapping the Emerging Social Science of Large Language Models

The paper maps the nascent social‑science literature on large language models (LLMs) by analysing 198 curated papers and 47,719 field‑scale papers. It identifies three main domains—LLM as Social Minds, LLM Societies, and LLM‑Human Interactions—each containing 13 subcategories such as reasoning, bias, collective intelligence, and trust. The taxonomy is validated through clustering stability, author classification agreement, and topic mapping, revealing differing prominence across conference and journal venues.

By Yi Yang, Xiao Jia, Zeyun Dong, Chenzhang Wang, Zhanzhan Zhao