Talking to a chatbot may weaken someone’s belief in conspiracy theories, researchers report in Science | On average, study participants who chatted with the AI about their theory experienced a 20 percent weakening of their conviction.

>The researchers also found that the AI conversations weakened more general conspiratorial beliefs, beyond the single belief being debated. Before getting started, participants in the first experiment filled out the Belief in Conspiracy Theories Inventory, where they rated their belief in various conspiracy theories on the 0 to 100 scale. Chatting with AI led to small reductions in participants’ scores on this inventory.

Read more [about the study here.](https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ai-chatbot-conspiracy-theories)

How does one measure conviction?

I guess the conspiracy theory of AI taking over can easily be debunked by talking to a so-called ‘AI’ that is a statistical engine using a LLM…