Date: December 17, 2025 | 12 p.m. ET | Free
Duration: 1 hour
Description: A recent PNAS paper called AI agents an “existential threat” to survey research, showing they pass 99.8% of attention checks and cost just five cents per completion. This webinar separates hype from reality, demonstrating why behavioral analysis through event streaming detects AI agents with 100% accuracy and how to implement it.
Outcomes:
- Practical steps researchers can take today to protect their survey data against AI-generated responses, along with what recent research reveals about the capabilities of AI agents to complete surveys with human-like responses and the limitations of attention checks, red herrings, trap questions, open-ends, and other content-based detection methods.
- Why the foundational assumption of survey research that a coherent response is a human response is no longer sufficient, what this shift means for data quality protocols, and how behavioral analysis through event streaming differs from traditional detection approaches by showing why monitoring how questions are answered matters more than whether they are answered correctly.
- Real examples of behavioral signatures that distinguish human respondents from AI agents, highlighting how these behaviors support stronger protections and more reliable data quality frameworks.
Speaker: Leib Litman, PhD Chief Research Officer, CloudResearch
Speaker Bio: Leib Litman, Ph.D., is co-founder and Chief Research Officer at CloudResearch. His latest research explores how emerging AI technologies can be integrated with classic psychometric principles to create more valid and scalable research instruments. Leib has almost 30 years of experience teaching research methods, and he has written close to 100 articles and book chapters in experimental and cognitive psychology. His latest book is Research in the Cloud: An Introduction to Modern Research Methods in the Behavioral Sciences, published by Cambridge University Press.