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Roughly half of Americans subscribe to some sort of conspiracy theory, and their fellow humans haven’t had much success coaxing them out of their rabbit holes.
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Previously, only astronauts from government space agencies had conducted spacewalks to build or upgrade space stations in orbit, repair satellites, and complete science experiments.
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Participants, who were “quota matched to the U.S. census on age, gender, race, and ethnicity,” were then randomly assigned to either have a three-round conversation with the AI about their “favored …
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But psychologists and extremism experts say everyday Americans are better off not meeting a loved one’s conspiracy theories with ridicule. “We don’t want to shame people for believing in a false …
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The “COVID vaccines contain 5G chips” conspiracy theory is easy to mock, but a less-absurd-sounding conspiracy around COVID is very likely costing lives: Some people believe that the very …
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These conversations, lasting an average of 8.4 minutes, allowed the AI to directly address and refute the specific evidence supporting each individual’s conspiratorial beliefs, an approach that was …
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DebunkBot, an A.I. chatbot designed by researchers to “very effectively persuade” users to stop believing unfounded conspiracy theories, made significant and long-lasting progress at changing people’s …
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Have you ever tried to convince a conspiracy theorist that the moon landing wasn’t staged? You likely didn’t succeed, but ChatGPT might have better luck, according to research by MIT Sloan School of …
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“We see that the AI overwhelmingly was providing non-con conspiratorial explanations for these seemingly conspiratorial events and encouraging people to engage in critical thinking and providing …
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