A brief conversation with a trained chatbot proved roughly four times as persuasive as a traditional political ad on ...

Researchers are scrambling to figure out why generative AI appears to lead some people to a state of “psychosis.” ...

A conversation with a chatbot can shift people's political views—but the most persuasive models also spread the most ...

MIT Technology Review’s senior reporter for features and investigations, Eileen Guo, and FT tech correspondent Melissa ...

General-purpose AI chatbots (e.g., ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini)—designed for broad assistance and conversation, not therapy: They ...

Both papers found that chatbots influence voter opinions not by using emotional appeals or storytelling, but by flooding the ...

A new study suggests that traditional learning activities like making notes remain critical for students' reading ...

The more persuasive a model is trained to be, the higher the likelihood that it'll hallucinate, researchers find.

To see if conversational large language models can really sway political views of the public, scientists at the UK AI ...

The most persuasive bots don’t need to tell the best story or cater to a person’s individual beliefs, researchers report in a related paper in Science. Instead, they simply dole out the most ...

I feel like I'm writing a science fiction novel, but this is a reality that needs to be clearly stated: bots are not human. Yet, we're allowing them to become companions for our children and our young ...