What Makes AI Persuasive? Not What You Think

A major new study in Science provides the most comprehensive empirical map to date of how conversational AI achieves persuasive effects—and the findings challenge both the apocalyptic “manipulation machine” narrative…

When to Trust Your Own Ears

A new framework from NVIDIA and collaborators teaches audio models something that sounds almost paradoxically simple: knowing when to trust themselves versus when to ask for help. The approach, called…