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[Linkpost] “We automatically change people’s minds on the AI threat” by Mikhail Samin


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This is a link post.After a message, the chatbot asks how helpful it was, on the scale from "Not at all" to "Completely changed my mind". n=24, median=5, average=4.46.
One of the zeros is someone who added a comment that they had already been convinced.

Something that I've been doing for a while with random normal people (from Uber drivers to MP staffers) is being very attentive to the diff I need to communicate to them on the danger that AI would kill everyone: usually their questions show what they're curious about and what information they're missing; you can then dump what they're missing in a way they'll find intuitive.

We've made a lot of progress automating this. A chatbot we've created makes arguments that are more valid and convincing than you expect from the current systems.

We've crafted the context to make the chatbot grok, as much as possible [...]


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October 3rd, 2025

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https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/w5tzAyRxdGhHfvxxB/we-automatically-change-people-s-minds-on-the-ai-threat

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https://whyacre.aisgf.us

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