Luke 🐝 Hewitt
@lukebeehewitt
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AI + persuasion researcher. Old tweets auto-delete.
Joined November 2018
Largest ever (by far) randomized controlled trial evaluating the persuasive capabilities of LLMs
Today (w/ @UniofOxford @Stanford @MIT @LSEnews) we’re sharing the results of the largest AI persuasion experiments to date: 76k participants, 19 LLMs, 707 political issues. We examine “levers” of AI persuasion: model scale, post-training, prompting, personalization, & more 🧵
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New preprint out with an amazing 40-person team! We find that Claude 3.5 Sonnet outperforms incentivised human persuaders in a >1000-participant live quiz-chat in deceptive and truthful directions!
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😁 Thrilled to say that the U.S. just approved my petition for an O-1 visa! Interview was straightforward tbh. USCIS officer: "So, what's your exceptional ability?" Me: (thought for 63 seconds)... "Reasoning."
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📈Out today in @PNASNews!📈 In a large pre-registered experiment (n=25,982), we find evidence that scaling the size of LLMs yields sharply diminishing persuasive returns for static political messages. 🧵:
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