Debunkbot.com: Reducing Conspiracy Beliefs through Dialogue with AI
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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.
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Free with museum admission
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- In-person only.
314 Main Street
Building E-28
Cambridge, MA 02142
United States
Area 2, East Cambridge, and The Port
Dates and Times
Monday, October 28, 3PM – 4:30PM
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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 counterevidence. Yet previous failures in correcting conspiracy beliefs may be due to counterevidence being insufficiently compelling and tailored - an issue 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.
October 28
3 - 4:30pm
Free with museum admission
Monday, October 28, 3PM – 4:30PM
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