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🚀🤖 NEWSFLASH: #AI #bots now out-smooth-talking humans! Who knew? The #future is here, and it's a chatty algorithm. Meanwhile, #arXiv is hiring a #DevOps Engineer—because even the smartest computers need a babysitter. 🙄👨‍💻
arxiv.org/abs/2505.09662 #Tech #Engineer #SmoothTalkers #HackerNews #ngated

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arXiv.orgLarge Language Models Are More Persuasive Than Incentivized Human PersuadersWe directly compare the persuasion capabilities of a frontier large language model (LLM; Claude Sonnet 3.5) against incentivized human persuaders in an interactive, real-time conversational quiz setting. In this preregistered, large-scale incentivized experiment, participants (quiz takers) completed an online quiz where persuaders (either humans or LLMs) attempted to persuade quiz takers toward correct or incorrect answers. We find that LLM persuaders achieved significantly higher compliance with their directional persuasion attempts than incentivized human persuaders, demonstrating superior persuasive capabilities in both truthful (toward correct answers) and deceptive (toward incorrect answers) contexts. We also find that LLM persuaders significantly increased quiz takers' accuracy, leading to higher earnings, when steering quiz takers toward correct answers, and significantly decreased their accuracy, leading to lower earnings, when steering them toward incorrect answers. Overall, our findings suggest that AI's persuasion capabilities already exceed those of humans that have real-money bonuses tied to performance. Our findings of increasingly capable AI persuaders thus underscore the urgency of emerging alignment and governance frameworks.

Sigh, there's some work that's come across my virtual desk that would be amazing. I'm quoting on it this weekend and I very desperately want it. It would be so interesting and aligns with my values -- my ideal project.

Gosh, I hope I get it...