chatbots

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...

Is that this movie review a rave or a pan? Is that...

“Then someday this 12 months,” Sharma says, “there was no disclaimer.” Curious to learn more, she tested generations of models introduced way back to 2022 by OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, Google, and xAI—15 in...

Are you imagining things, or do artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots seem too wanting to agree with you? Whether it’s telling you that your questionable idea is “sensible” or backing you up on something that...