Stop Drawing Scientific Claims from LLM Social Simulations Without Robustness Audits

arXiv:2605.18890 · physics.soc-ph, cs.AI, cs.CY, cs.MA · Submitted 2026-05-17 · Read on arXiv

physics.soc-ph, cs.AI, cs.CY, cs.MA

Submitted: 2026-05-17

Updated: 2026-10-22

Terminology

• Robustness — 6× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Cooperation — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Polarization — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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