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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 04/12/2025

New: AI chatbots can change voters' minds, according to a pair of in-depth studies published just now in Science and Nature. How they do it is interesting — and concerning. Gift link: wapo.st/49RSstP

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Voters’ minds are hard to change. AI chatbots are surprisingly good at it.

New research suggests AI chatbots can shift people’s political views more effectively than campaign ads on TV.

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You Can't Govern Unless You Win @lngnstrt.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

It's interesting because the AI's method was the same as Trump uses now. A long string of supposed accomplishments repeated over and over.

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LibDib @libdibnords.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

If someone's mind can be changed by a chatbot, they shouldn't be voting.

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Susaga @susaga.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Also worth noting that people who use AI are gullible twits.

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 04/12/2025

Ahead of the 2024 U.S. election, researchers at MIT, Cornell et al. asked more than 2,000 Americans to converse with chatbots that were told to advocate for either Trump or Harris. 1 in 25 participants were persuaded to shift their likely vote. Outside the U.S., those figures were higher.

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Chatbots were able to move about 1 in 25 people from their original position to backing either Trump or Harris, according to the studies, which were published Thursday in the journals Science and Nature.

That might not sound like much, and experts caution that the studies don’t prove a chatbot could actually swing an election.

Still, both the pro-Harris bot and the pro-Trump bot proved more effective at shifting voters’ opinions than the average TV campaign ad, the researchers found. The pro-Harris bot was more successful, persuading about 1 in 21 people who didn’t previously plan to vote for Harris to lean in her direction. The pro-Trump bot won over about 1 in 35.

The findings, part of a broader set of experiments conducted on more than 80,000 participants across four countries, raise the prospect of conversational AI becoming a staple of political campaigns in the years to come, researchers say. The studies, which found larger effects on voters in elections outside the United States, also underline concerns that chatbots could manipulate voters with false or misleading claims.

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Marielza @marielza.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

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j-waller55.bsky.social @j-waller55.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

I don't want to imagine how much more effective an AI chatbot could be in changing minds if it had access to, and was programmed to use an individual's personal preferences (mined from available online data), in creating its responses to questions.

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Phasers On Fun @humanspareparts.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

this way lies madness

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the original Aloof Wife @cpi.pinball.horse · 04/12/2025

Cool and good that despotic Nazi billionaires run all of the chat bots! Surely nothing negative will come of this

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