3 papers
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.HC2026
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,…
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…