Language models are persuasive – and that’s a good thing

• Two new studies were published last week, in two of the most prestigious scientific journals, and sharing an overlapping authorship list. Persuading voters using human–artificial intelligence dialogues (Lin et al, 2025) was published in Nature, and tested the effect of AI dialogues on voters’ preferences in the context of elections in the US, Canada and Poland. The levers of political persuasion with conversational artificial intelligence (Hackenburg et al, 2025) was published in Science, and tested the effect of AI dialogues, when driven by different models and different prompting strategies, on attitudes of UK adults across British political issues.

[2510.11789] Dimension-Free Minimax Rates for Learning Pairwise Interactions in Attention-Style Models – this is lit review for the MDA study

Tasks

• Send off BLOG@CACM – done
• Bills – done
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• Chores – done
• Dishes – done
• MVA – trying to get my eye exam info sent over. Otherwise I need to schedule an appointment, which doesn’t seem terrible
• Groceries – done
• Get together with Terry for tix? – Sunday?