# AI for Social Science: the evolution of AI in literature reviews and beyond

**Event**: Systematic Reviews · Imperial Business School PhD Program
**Date**: September 2024
**Speakers**: Xule Lin
**Keywords**: ai tools, social science, literature review, systematic review, LLM-augmented synthesis, embedding-based retrieval, Imperial Business School, research workflow, human-AI collaboration


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Guest lecture for the Systematic Reviews module in the Imperial Business School PhD program, co-taught with Erkko Autio. Traces the evolution of AI tools in academic literature reviews — from keyword search to embedding-based retrieval to LLM-augmented synthesis — and examines implications for research practice.

Also presented in 2023.