What do we do when nobody answers the phone? This month, I’m going to be discussing a really interesting topic that I came across in a recent draft paper by a professor at the University of Maryland named M. R. Sauter . In the paper, they discuss (among other things) the phenomenon of social scientists and pollsters trying to employ AI tools to help overcome some of the challenges in conducting social science human subjects research and polling, and point out some major flaws with these approaches.