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cs.CL2026

Measuring and Mitigating Persona Distortions from AI Writing Assistance

Paul Röttger, Kobi Hackenburg, Hannah Rose Kirk +1

Hundreds of millions of people use artificial intelligence (AI) for writing assistance. Here, we evaluated how AI writing assistance distorts writer personas - their perceived beli…

cs.CL2025

IssueBench: Millions of Realistic Prompts for Measuring Issue Bias in LLM Writing Assistance

Paul Röttger, Musashi Hinck, Valentin Hofmann +4

Large language models (LLMs) are helping millions of users write texts about diverse issues, and in doing so expose users to different ideas and perspectives. This creates concerns…

cs.CY2024

Large language models can consistently generate high-quality content for election disinformation operations

Angus R. Williams, Liam Burke-Moore, Ryan Sze-Yin Chan +7

Advances in large language models have raised concerns about their potential use in generating compelling election disinformation at scale. This study presents a two-part investiga…

cs.CY2026

Artificial intelligence can persuade people to take political actions

Kobi Hackenburg, Luke Hewitt, Caroline Wagner +2

There is substantial concern about the ability of advanced artificial intelligence to influence people's behaviour. A rapidly growing body of research has found that AI can produce…

cs.HC2026

Conversational AI increases political knowledge as effectively as self-directed internet search

Lennart Luettgau, Hannah Rose Kirk, Kobi Hackenburg +6

Conversational AI systems are increasingly being used in place of traditional search engines to help users complete information-seeking tasks. This has raised concerns in the polit…

cs.CL2024

Evidence of a log scaling law for political persuasion with large language models

Kobi Hackenburg, Ben M. Tappin, Paul Röttger +3

Large language models can now generate political messages as persuasive as those written by humans, raising concerns about how far this persuasiveness may continue to increase with…