AI is now better at persuading people than expert humans like champion debaters and professional canvassers.
Many societal decisions are settled by contests of persuasion. Conversational AI is a powerful new entrant in these contests, but whether it can out-persuade skilled and highly incentivized humans has remained unclear. Here, in a series of four preregistered experiments (n = 18,978 conversations...
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Think about what that means for politics, government-messaging, and even the things we've discussed over the years on here.