Testing AI for Social Science and Humanities Research Using Chainforge

• Date: December 3, 2026 at 9am PT | 10am ABT | 11am ET | 1pm AT
• Duration: 2 hours
• Language of instruction: English

If you want to use Large Language Models for research you will want to test different combinations of evidence, prompts, and models. Chainforge is a free in-browser visual programming environment that lets you lay out flows that try variations of evidence, prompts, and models. In this workshop we will show you how to use Chainforge to create flows that fit your research needs. We will also survey some common models for flows in the Social Science and Humanities.

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Instructor: Dr. Geoffrey Martin Rockwell is a Professor of Philosophy and Digital Humanities at the University of Alberta. He holds a Canada CIFAR AI Chair and is a Fellow at the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute. He has a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Toronto and has published on subjects such as artificial intelligence and ethics, philosophical dialogue, textual visualization and analysis, digital humanities, instructional technology, computer games and multimedia. His books include Defining Dialogue: From Socrates to the Internet (Humanity Books, 2003) and Hermeneutica, co-authored with Stéfan Sinclair (MIT Press, 2016). Hermeneutica is part of a hybrid text and tool project with Voyant Tools (voyant-tools.org), an award-winning suite of analytical tools. He recently co-edited Right Research: Modelling Sustainable Research Practices in the Anthropocene (Open Book Publishers, 2021) and On Making in the Digital Humanities (UCL Press, 2023).