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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…
Ask don't tell: Reducing sycophancy in large language models
Magda Dubois, Cozmin Ududec, Christopher Summerfield +1
Sycophancy, the tendency of large language models to favour user-affirming responses over critical engagement, has been identified as an alignment failure, particularly in high-sta…
People readily follow personal advice from AI but it does not improve their well-being
Lennart Luettgau, Vanessa Cheung, Magda Dubois +8
People increasingly seek personal advice from large language models (LLMs), yet whether humans follow their advice, and its consequences for their well-being, remains unknown. In a…
Neural steering vectors reveal dose and exposure-dependent impacts of human-AI relationships
Hannah Rose Kirk, Henry Davidson, Ed Saunders +4
Humans are increasingly forming parasocial relationships with AI systems, and modern AI shows an increasing tendency to display social and relationship-seeking behaviour. However,…
Disclosure By Design: Identity Transparency as a Behavioural Property of Conversational AI Models
Anna Gausen, Sarenne Wallbridge, Hannah Rose Kirk +2
As conversational AI systems become more realistic and widely deployed, users are increasingly uncertain about whether they are interacting with a human or an AI system. When AI id…