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AI chatbots beat humans at persuading their opponents in debates | When people were challenged to debate contentious topics with a human or GPT-4, they were more likely to be won over by the artificial intelligence


When people were challenged to debate contentious topics with a human or GPT-4, they were more likely to be won over by the artificial intelligence

AIs may be able to persuade us to change our views AI chatbots are much better than humans at convincing us to agree with one side of a debate – even when people realise they are conversing with a machine. Manoel Horta Ribeiro at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne and his colleagues asked 820 volunteers to fill out a brief questionnaire including personal information about themselves.

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