Spatial Multiverse Analysis: GenAI as an Automated Critic for Robustness in Spatial Analysis

Simon Ilyushchenko
2026

Abstract

Does your map hold up under different defensible choices?

The most important role for generative AI in GIScience isn't automating boring workflow parts— it's helping us stress-test them. I want to talk about robustness, about why it matters more than reproducibility alone, and about a concept I'm calling spatial multiverse analysis.
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