3 papers
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.CY2026
DeliberationBench: A Normative Benchmark for the Influence of Large Language Models on Users' Views
Luke Hewitt, Maximilian Kroner Dale, Paul de Font-Reaulx
As large language models (LLMs) become pervasive as assistants and thought partners, it is important to characterize their persuasive influence on users' beliefs. However, a centra…
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…