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SUMMARY:Can AI Out-Argue a World Champion? The Science of Superhuman Persu
 asion - Kobi Hackenburg (University of Oxford\; UK AISI)
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CONTACT:Yara Kyrychenko
DESCRIPTION:Conversational AI systems are increasingly capable of influenc
 ing 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 participan
 ts 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!) re
 sults 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 abou
 t the future of political communication\, the limits of human cognition\, 
 and what happens when machines can change minds better than we can.
LOCATION:Ground Floor Lecture Theatre\, Department of Psychology\, Downing
  Site\, Cambridge
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