I am aware of some groups that are (at least planning to) use IBM Watson to analyse the outcomes and impacts of social policy research. As a (made up) example:

I am aware of some groups that are (at least planning to) use IBM Watson to analyse the outcomes and impacts of social policy research. As a (made up) example: feeding the AI data-sets of various social investments made (eg: education, mental health, social & medical support) alongside health and societal outcomes (crime, hospital intake, suicides, etc..) then overlaying it on a map and maybe getting Watson to "tell you" which investments had the best impacts. That particular example is actually an amalgam of a number of projects my girlfriend has undertaken recently in her career as a social-policy analyst BUT she is also enrolled in a university Master's program next year where one of the possibilities for her placement is to work supporting the Watson team in figuring out how to use Watson to improve lives & outcomes in the real world. I've also heard about using Watson in analyzing health data (detecting cancers based on mass x-ray analysis) - but I don't know how much of that is currently working. Hope that helps - I know it's all anecdotal from my side and I can't link you to anything published on the topic, but you can take the example for what it is worth :) EDIT - I'll try and ask her if she got any more information about what she was going to do for Watson.