Claim LD07-HQ-C09 (v1.0)
Autonomous LLM agents can complete online surveys while passing conventional attention and logic checks at very high rates under tested conditions.
Provenance and status
- Claim type
- FACT (as printed: “FACT”)
- Publication status
- ELIGIBLE (as printed: “ELIGIBLE”)
- Verification state
- CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY (as printed: “CLEARED”; verified by: UNKNOWN)
- Does not license
- Any field prevalence estimate
- Source (field 6, as printed)
- Sean J. Westwood, PNAS 122(47):e2518075122 (2025)
- Source type (field 7)
- PEER_REVIEWED_JOURNAL_ARTICLE (as printed: “Peer-reviewed journal article”)
- Institutional position
- Independent academic
- Maturity (claim evidence / publication maturity)
- MATURE (CAPABILITY) (as printed: “CAPABILITY MATURE”)
- Recorded date
- 2026-09-25
- Currentness / correction
- This is the current version. No correction or concern relation is recorded on its Sources.
Version
Pinned version v1.0 (entry LD07-HQ-C09--v1.0) — this page never floats to newer evidence.
This pinned version is also the current version.
Pinned Sources (field 6, version-specific)
- “Sean J. Westwood, PNAS 122(47):e2518075122 (2025)” → SRC-LD07-WESTWOOD-SURVEY-THREAT-2025--v1.0 — Westwood, “The potential existential threat of large language models to online survey research,” PNAS 122(47):e2518075122 (2025); class PEER_REVIEWED_JOURNAL_ARTICLE (explicit public provenance pin)
Read the originals
- SRC-LD07-WESTWOOD-SURVEY-THREAT-2025: open the original
All 25 canonical Claim fields (raw values and normalized values)
| # | Canonical field | Canonical value (verbatim) | Normalized (Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CLAIM ID | LD07-HQ-C09 | — |
| 2 | PUBLIC-FACING CLAIM | Autonomous LLM agents can complete online surveys while passing conventional attention and logic checks at very high rates under tested conditions. | — |
| 3 | CLAIM TYPE | FACT | base_types: FACT |
| 4 | RESEARCH STRAND | D — Survey/trace contamination | — |
| 5 | MATURITY | CAPABILITY MATURE | states: MATURE · qualifiers: CAPABILITY |
| 6 | SOURCE | Sean J. Westwood, PNAS 122(47):e2518075122 (2025) | source_ids: SRC-LD07-WESTWOOD-SURVEY-THREAT-2025 |
| 7 | SOURCE TYPE | Peer-reviewed journal article | classes: PEER_REVIEWED_JOURNAL_ARTICLE |
| 8 | INSTITUTIONAL POSITION | Independent academic | — |
| 9 | SCOPE | Online survey quality checks | — |
| 10 | DESIGN | Autonomous synthetic-respondent capability experiment | — |
| 11 | SAMPLE / DATASET | 6,000 ACQ trials; broader 43,800 evaluations/139 questions | — |
| 12 | MODEL / TOOL / VERSION | o4-mini primary; key subset across nine LLMs | — |
| 13 | COMPARATOR | Conventional survey-quality checks / expected human constraints | — |
| 14 | MAIN RESULT | 99.8% ACQ pass; perfect on 18/20 check types | — |
| 15 | INFERENTIAL TARGET | Capability to evade checks | — |
| 16 | DOES NOT LICENSE | Any field prevalence estimate | — |
| 17 | VERIFICATION STATE | CLEARED | state: CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY · verified_by: UNKNOWN |
| 18 | LIMITATIONS | Designed capability demonstration; not production-panel observation | — |
| 19 | CONTRADICTORY / SUPPORTING SOURCES | Later prevalence audits address different estimand | — |
| 20 | GEOGRAPHY / LANGUAGE | US / English | — |
| 21 | DISTRIBUTIONAL LEDGER | Not assessed | — |
| 22 | R01 / FIELD-MAP LINKS | T1, D9 | — |
| 23 | WHAT WOULD CHANGE THIS CLAIM? | Robust checks that reliably separate capable agents from humans | — |
| 24 | PUBLICATION STATUS | ELIGIBLE | state: ELIGIBLE |
| 25 | RECORDED DATE | 2026-09-25 | — |
Field 22 references resolved against Field Map v0.2: T1 (TENSION); D9 (DOMAIN)
Cited by Living Debate versions
Research-of-record provenance
Materialized by sociolens-materializer 0.6.0 at 2026-09-28T20:00:00.000Z; normalization contract SocioLens — Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2 — Pre-Spike Materialization Contract (v1.0.2). Content seal SHA-256 2495ad73d1553002b0cda712a856ccf6f9b9056d99ee7a7160a5aed46ba1944a.
Frozen Drive-derived inputs
- R03 — LD-07 Canonical Claim Ledger v1.0 — LOCKED (v1.0) — Drive ID
1xVz_LrQAA8EA1tPhVWIrDgOUU3Zidlg9; revision: NOT_EXPOSED_BY_DRIVE_TEXT_EXPORT; Drive modified 2026-09-29T04:31:14.120Z; block “ENTRY 09 — LD07-HQ-C09” SHA-2569cca63585480e85526d69f464287a27db8b934aba686e9e299e5b1c1e51e022d; SocioLens — Programme Status & Authority Register v0.6 status “CURRENT.”; frozen fixturefixtures/frozen/r03-ld07-claim-ledger-v1.0-canonical.
Builder decisions (not Drive data)
- VERSION = v1.0 — basis: Claim version taken from the canonical ledger artifact version (R03 — LD-07 Canonical Claim Ledger v1.0); Implementation Architecture Selection §5
- CURRENT_POINTER = true — basis: SocioLens — Programme Status & Authority Register v0.6 status for "R03 — LD-07 Canonical Claim Ledger v1.0 — LOCKED": "CURRENT."
- FIELD_6_SOURCE_REFERENCE = SRC-LD07-WESTWOOD-SURVEY-THREAT-2025--v1.0 — basis: field 6 of ENTRY 09 — LD07-HQ-C09 cites "Sean J. Westwood, PNAS 122(47):e2518075122 (2025)"; the frozen field-6 segment of this ClaimVersion's ledger block; Drive-derived identity authority (Issue #39 Source inventory): Batch 03 §1; ledger C09; KEY EVIDENCE.
- SOURCE_PROVENANCE_PIN = SRC-LD07-WESTWOOD-SURVEY-THREAT-2025--v1.0 — basis: Issue #5 proof rendering (Architecture Proof Protocol v0.1 AP-08 / Amendment v1.2 §6): explicit version-pinned public provenance of this ClaimVersion — the pinned field-6 Source record "Sean J. Westwood, PNAS 122(47):e2518075122 (2025)"; Drive-derived identity authority (Issue #39 Source inventory): Batch 03 §1; ledger C09; KEY EVIDENCE.