Stop Drawing Scientific Claims from LLM Social Simulations Without Robustness Audits

ArXi:2605.18890v1 Announce Type: cross The scientific claims drawn from LLM social simulations should be no stronger than the robustness audits that them. Generative agents bring new expressive power to agent-based modeling, enabling simulations of collective social processes like cooperation, polarization, and norm formation. Yet they also We this position with two case studies: a repeated Prisoner's Dilemma and a social media echo chamber simulation.