As usual on point from @garymarcus.bsky.social . AI as a persuasion agent is a dangerous tool (Gary gives our work as an example, but there's a lot more, see thread) and our best guess should be that the recent Trump Executive Order on AI Bias does not intend to fix it (or fix AI Bias). Thread 1/

I've been looking for ways to estimate the persuasive impact of deployed LLM products, beyond our little controlled experiments. IssueBench by @paul-rottger.bsky.social and team reads like it can provide some grounding to conversation of opinions and influence of LLMs in the wild 👌

🗞️ Germany's largest tech magazine (c't) published an article on how large language models influence user opinions, covering our research: www.heise.de/hintergrund/... Anyone interested in doing AI influence work in the European context?