Debunkbot.com: Reducing Conspiracy Beliefs through Dialogue with AI
When:
Monday, Oct 28, 2024 3:00p -
4:30p
Monday, Oct 28, 2024 3:00p -
4:30p
Where:
MIT Museum
314 Main Street, Gambrill Center, Building E-28
Cambridge, MA 02142
Admission:
$free with museum admission
Hosted by:
Categories:
Innovation, Tech
Event website:
https://mitmuseum.mit.edu/programs/debunkbot-com-reducing-conspiracy-beliefs-through-dialogue-with-ai
Join MIT Professor David Rand to explore how developments in AI, such as Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT, can help create a better-informed public.
In this talk, Rand focuses on conspiracy theory beliefs, which are notoriously hard to record. Influential hypotheses propose that they fulfill important psychological needs, thus resisting conterevidence. Yet previous failures in correcting conspiracy beliefs may be due to conterevidence being insufficiently compelling and tailored -- an issue that LLMs can help address. Rand will discuss experiments in which his group engaged conspiracy believers in personalized evidence-based dialogues with GPT-4 Turbo and found large and lasting reductions in belief. These findings suggest that many conspiracy theory believers can revise their views if presented with sufficiently compelling evidence and demonstrates that generative AI has potential for positive societal impact in this area.
Try it yourself at www.DebunkBot.com!
October 28
3 - 4:30pm
Free with museum admission
