Mitchell Bosley

Mitchell Bosley

Postdoctoral Researcher
Schwartz Reisman Institute
University of Toronto

About

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society at the University of Toronto. I recieved my Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan in Summer 2024. My research is driven by my conviction that Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to revolutionize the way we study and understand politics while also serving as a tool for social empowerment and progress. To this end, I am working on applications of AI and machine learning to the study of political behavior and institutions, with a particular emphasis on the capacities of these models to measure concepts from data, empower individuals to make better choices, and simulate social and political processes. You can find my CV here.

Publications

Improving Probabilistic Models in Text Classification via Active Learning
Mitchell Bosley, Saki Kuzushima, Ted Enamorado, and Yuki Shiraito.
American Political Science Review (2024)
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Towards Qualitative Measurement at Scale: A Prompt-Engineering Framework for Analysis of Deliberative Quality in Parliamentary Debates
Mitchell Bosley
Conditionally accepted at the Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy
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Research

Can AI Reduce Prejudice at Scale? Evaluating the Effectiveness of AI-Powered Personalized Persuasion on Support for Transgender Rights
Charles Crabtree, John Holbein, Mitchell Bosley, and Semra Sevi
[Paper]
Experimentally Assessing the Impact of AI Literacy on Development: A Research Proposal
Mitchell Bosley, Charles Crabtree, John Holbein, and Veronica Hurtado
[Paper]
Do we still need BERT in the age of GPT? Comparing the benefits of domain-adaptation and in-context-learning approaches to using LLMs for Political Science Research
Mitchell Bosley, Musashi Hinck, Alexander Hoyle, and Hauke Licht
[Paper]
Did Suffrage Expansion in British Colonial India Affect Legislative Support for Social Policy?
Mitchell Bosley, Ajit Phadnis, and Thihaw Zaw
[Abstract]

Teaching

Past Courses

Introduction to Political Analysis
Taught at the University of British Columbia, Summer 2003
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Prepared Courses

Advanced Computational Methods for Social Science Research
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The Political Economy of Artificial Intelligence
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Contact

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