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Bottom line: LLMs are promising diagnostic tools, but they are no substitute for listening to people talk about how they feel about their lives.

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“Simulating human well-being with large language models.”
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🤖 They reproduce broad patterns (richer, healthier → more satisfied with life)
⚠️ But systematically misestimate well-being
🌍 Especially in countries least represented online
🔎 LLMs rely mostly on linguistic shortcuts, not lived experience

PNAS Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

Can AI really predict how satisfied we are with our lives? We tested 4 leading language models on 64,000 people across 64 countries, and found: