🤖 AI chatbots may be getting surprisingly good at changing our minds.
New research involving 18,978 conversations and 6,923 people found that AI systems could outperform highly trained human persuaders — including elite competitive debaters.
So what's the secret?
Researchers point to something surprisingly simple: AI can deliver huge amounts of relevant information at incredible speed.
And when researchers forced AI to communicate at human-like speed and length, its advantage disappeared.
But there's a major warning: being persuasive doesn't mean being correct.
Earlier research found that some methods that make AI more persuasive can also reduce its factual accuracy.
That raises a much bigger question:
As AI becomes better at changing our minds, how do we make sure it's changing them for the right reasons?
