Authors: K Hackenburg, BM Tappin, L Hewitt, E Saunders
Year: 2025
Published in: Science, 2025 - science.org
Institution: London School of Economics and Political Science, Stony Brook University
Research Area: Political Persuasion with Conversational AI, LLM, Factual Accuracy in AI Systems.
Discipline: Political Science, Computational Social Science
This Science paper shows that conversational AI chatbots can systematically influence political opinions at scale, and that techniques like post-training and prompting make them far more persuasive—but that increased persuasion is tied to reduced factual accuracy in what the AI says.
Citations: 12