Technology watchdogs have long warned of the role artificial intelligence can play in disseminating misinformation and deepening ideological divides. Now, researchers have proof of how well AI can ...

B.J. Fogg has many rules of thumb about what works and what doesn’t in persuading users through technology. As director of the Stanford University Persuasive Technology Lab, he consults with large ...

There are definitely plenty of positive ways that emotionally-responsive technology could be used to raise our overall levels of happiness, identify people in need of serious help, and defuse ugly ...

Researchers at the University of Zurich wanted to see how persuasive AI could be — but did not get permission to do research on the actual humans on Reddit that the AI was interacting with. There were ...

Chris Simms is a science writer based in Somerset, UK. “Obviously as soon as people see that you can persuade people more with LLMs, they’re going to start using them,” says study co-author Francesco ...