Synthetic AGI attitudes survey study
Manus planned a survey study on student attitudes to AGI, wrote a Google Apps Script for the form, simulated 1,000 students, and analyzed the data.
From one short prompt, Manus produced a publishable-style report with charts from 1,000 synthetic responses. The data is made up.
Overview
How it was set up
Manus agent with a central task-master, sub-agents and its own virtual computer. It built a to-do list and chose to write a Google Apps Script instead of driving Google Forms.
Worth knowing
It refused to submit fake responses to the real form on ethics grounds. All data is synthetic.
A prompt to start from
I want to create a Google Form script for a research survey of [population] about [topic]. Mix Likert and open-ended questions, capture demographics. Then simulate [N] respondents, analyze the data, and write a publishable report. This is a proof of concept.
Written by Agentic Feats from the source. Not the author's exact prompt.
Sources 1
History
- Source published
- 2025-03-22
- Added to Agentic Feats
- 2026-10-13
- Pick
- No
- Markdown copy
- /c/synthetic-agi-attitudes-survey-study-manus.md
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