AI Gets Really Good at Winning Arguments When It Knows Personal Facts About You – Decrypt

In brief

• A group of researchers found that AI with minimal personal data about opponents is significantly more persuasive than humans in debates, outperforming them 64.4% of the time.
• In a separate study, researchers faced backlash for secretly deploying AI bots on Reddit that successfully changed users’ opinions while posing as various personas.
• AI persuasion works best through logical reasoning on topics where people haven’t formed strong opinions, raising concerns about targeted…