[ExI] Science this evening

[BillK]

On Fri, 13 Sept 2024 at 05:29, Keith Henson via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> Artificial Arguments: Intense dialogues with AI chatbots reduce
> beliefs in conspiracies
> H. H. Thorp & B. Bago and J.-F. Bonnefon & T. H. Costello et al.
>
> That's something else.
> Keith
> _______________________________________________


This study seems to be all over the news channels now — even in "Nature".
Original study here — <https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq1814>
Nature article here — <https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02966-6>

So, guess what? There is now a conspiracy theory starting about this study!
<https://headlineusa.com/nwo-elites-use-ai-deprogram-conspiracy/>
Quote:
Are New-World-Order Elites Plotting to Use AI to ‘Deprogram’ So-Called
Conspiracy Theorists?
'This is really exciting. It seemed like it worked and it worked quite
broadly...'
Posted by Jacob Bruns     September 13, 2024

Might the New World Order use biased, pre-manipulated artificial
intelligence programs to try to “deprogram” those with unpopular
opinions by persuading them that their logic does not compute?

Critics have already sounded the alarm that leftist radicals in
Silicon Valley and elsewhere were manipulating the algorithms used to
train AI so that it automatically defaulted to anti-conservative
biases.

The next step may be programming any verboten viewpoints into the
realm of “conspiracy theory,” then having powerful computers challenge
human users to a battle of logic that inevitably is stacked against
them with cherry-picked data.
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You can't win. Everything you believe is probably a conspiracy theory!  :)

BillK