Reddit is threatening to sue a group of researchers who used artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots to secretly experiment on its users. Scientists from the University of Zurich set loose an army of AI ...

Researchers at the University of Zurich wanted to see how persuasive AI could be — but did not get permission to do research on the actual humans on Reddit that the AI was interacting with. There were ...

The techniques that make artificial intelligence more effective at changing people’s minds also make it less accurate. That’s the troubling pattern that emerged from the largest study of AI persuasion ...

When our brains receive new information, we have two options: lump that information into an already existing category in our minds (assimilate) or create an entirely new category (accommodate). David ...

Source: Walther, ChatGPT-4, 2025 / OpenAI In the shadowy intersection of psychology and technology, a new form of influence is emerging—one that operates with surgical precision, learning from our ...

There were some very persuasive people on Reddit recently who were not actually people. They were part of an experiment. Researchers at the University of Zurich wanted to see how persuasive AI could ...