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Kobi Hackenburg (University of Oxford; UK AISI)
Monday 02 March 2026, 15:00-16:00
Can AI Out-Argue a World Champion? The Science of Superhuman Persuasion
- đ¤ Speaker: Kobi Hackenburg (University of Oxford; UK AISI)
- đ Date & Time: Monday 02 March 2026, 15:00 - 16:00
- đ Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge
Abstract
Conversational AI systems are increasingly capable of influencing what people believe. In this talk, I’ll present findings from a multi-year research program investigating the persuasive capabilities of large language models. Drawing on experiments involving over 100,000 participants and hundreds of political issues, I’ll explain what we currently know about what makes AI persuasive. I’ll then preview (for the first time!) results from a new series of experiments pitting frontier AI systems against increasingly elite human persuaders, culminating in competition against world championship debaters. The findings raise fundamental questions about the future of political communication, the limits of human cognition, and what happens when machines can change minds better than we can.
Series This talk is part of the Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS) series.
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