AI chatbots can meaningfully sway voters’ views after just one conversation, according to The Cornell Chronicle.
In global experiments, large language models moved opposition voters up to 25 percentage points—mostly by flooding chats with fact-based claims, not by manipulating emotions. But accuracy dropped the more persuasive the bot became, especially when backing right-leaning candidates.
Researchers say studying AI persuasion is critical as political campaigns increasingly deploy these tools—and as voters struggle to tell fact from fiction.
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