{
  "id": 7486889,
  "title": "Before You Poll with LLMs: A Deliberative Diagnostic Framework",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/14/before-you-poll-with-llms-a-deliberative-diagnostic-framework",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-14T16:41:48.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "arXiv cs.AI",
    "slug": "arxiv-cs-ai",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.15849v1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Can LLMs reason through new information like humans, or do they merely retrieve cached opinions? This is critical for silicon sampling, where LLM personas simulate public opinion at scale. Current evaluations test only whether personas hold the right opinions -- a static snapshot. But opinion research increasingly depends on dynamic fidelity: whether personas update beliefs in response to new…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}