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Surveys are a primary source of data across the sciences, from medicine to economics. Westwood will discuss new research demonstrated that the assumption that logically coherent responses are from humans is now untenable. He will show that autonomous AI agents, operating from a simple prompt, can evade current detection methods and produce high-quality survey responses that demonstrate reasoning and coherence expected of human responses. He will discuss how this capability fundamentally compromises the integrity of a critical tool for scientific inquiry, creating an urgent need for the scientific community to develop new standards for data validation and to reevaluate our reliance on unsupervised online data collection.