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Large language models (LLMs) have been championed as tools that might democratize...

With coding and math, you've gotten clear-cut, correct answers you can check, William Isaac, a research scientist at Google DeepMind, told me once I met him and Julia Haas, a fellow research scientist...

This query has taken on recent urgency recently because of growing concern concerning the dangers that may arise when children talk over with AI chatbots. For years Big Tech asked for birthdays (that...

All which means actors, whether well-resourced organizations or grassroots collectives, have a transparent path to deploying politically persuasive AI at scale. Early demonstrations have already occurred elsewhere on the planet. In India’s 2024...

“One conversation with an LLM has a reasonably meaningful effect on salient election selections,” says Gordon Pennycook, a psychologist at Cornell University who worked on the study. LLMs can persuade people more effectively...

or Claude to “search the online,” it isn’t just answering from its training data. It’s calling a separate search system. Most individuals know that part. What’s less clear is how much traditional serps matter and...

But facts dead. Our findings about conspiracy theories are the newest—and maybe most extreme—in an emerging body of research demonstrating the persuasive power of facts and evidence. For instance, while it was once believed...

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