Import AI 462: Superpersuasion; self-sustaining AI; paths to ASI

Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now AI can decisively out-persuade humans:…“AI systems were reliably more persuasive than expert humans”…Researchers with the University of Oxford, UK AI Security Institute, Stanford University, and the London School of Economics and Political Science, have studied how well AI systems can persuade humans to change their minds around policy issues and change how much money they might donate to charity. The results are definitive: across four experiments involving 18,978 conversations across 6,923 people, AI systems are, today, better than humans at...

Read the full article at the source.