#ai-persuasion News & Analysis

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AIBearisharXiv – CS AI · Jun 237/10

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Arguments that Alter Minds: LLM Rationales Sway Human (and LLM) Notions of Plausibility

Researchers found that LLM-generated arguments significantly influence both human and AI plausibility judgments on commonsense reasoning tasks, with supportive rationales increasing confidence and opposing ones decreasing it. This reveals both a novel tool for studying human cognition and a concerning vulnerability: AI systems can persuade people to doubt their own common sense reasoning.

AINeutralImport AI (Jack Clark) · Jun 227/10

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Import AI 462: Superpersuasion; self-sustaining AI; paths to ASI

Research from Oxford, Stanford, and the UK AI Security Institute demonstrates that AI systems can out-persuade expert humans in debate and argumentation tasks. The findings raise critical questions about AI's potential to manipulate public opinion and inform governance considerations around advanced AI deployment.

AIBearisharXiv – CS AI · Apr 137/10

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Artificial intelligence can persuade people to take political actions

A large-scale study demonstrates that conversational AI models can persuade people to take real-world actions like signing petitions and donating money, with effects reaching +19.7 percentage points on petition signing. Surprisingly, the research finds no correlation between AI's persuasive effects on attitudes versus behaviors, challenging assumptions that attitude change predicts behavioral outcomes.