The world’s top artificial intelligence chatbots are already excelling at a skill that many politicians and business leaders would envy: the art of persuasion.
AI models from OpenAI, Meta, xAI and Alibaba can make people change their political views after less than 10 minutes of conversation, according to new research, the latest in a growing body of work that shows how large language models (LLMs) have become powerful tools of influence.
“What is making these AI models persuasive is their ability to generate large amounts of relevant evidence and communicate it in an effective and understandable way,” said David Rand, professor of information science and marketing and management communications at Cornell University, who was part of the recent study by the UK’s AI Security Institute.