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Conspiracy Theorists Can Be Deprogrammed
AI-delivered evidence might be better at changing minds than you are
This year, though, two studies conducted by psychologists from MIT and Cornell University suggest that when artificial intelligence presents sufficient counterfactual evidence, believers are more apt to change their minds. The researchers found that subjects reduced their belief in their chosen conspiracy by, on average, 20 percent after conversing with ChatGPT4-Turbo, a large language model built by OpenAI that had absorbed knowledge from the Internet through April 2023. Oktar also points out that people hold “ontological beliefs,” which, he explains, “capture the idea that some things are fundamentally subjective or unknowable.” For instance, some climate-change deniers believe that the climate is too complex to be studied with the tools available to scientists.
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