most citedConversational AI increases political knowledge as effectively as self-directed internet search

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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…

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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.CY2026

AI systems out-persuade expert humans

Kobi Hackenburg, Caroline Wagner, Luke Hewitt +5

Many societal decisions are settled by contests of persuasion. Conversational AI is a powerful new entrant in these contests, but whether it can out-persuade skilled and highly inc…

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.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.CL2025

The Levers of Political Persuasion with Conversational AI

Kobi Hackenburg, Ben M. Tappin, Luke Hewitt +7

There are widespread fears that conversational AI could soon exert unprecedented influence over human beliefs. Here, in three large-scale experiments (N=76,977), we deployed 19 LLM…