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A survey of 360 university students in China found that those who saw generative AI as more empowering also tended to report greater trust and dependence. The cross-sectional study shows
Researchers analysed real ten-minute speed dates using facial, audio and language signals. Their models found suggestive patterns, but the uncertainty intervals did not establish a clear advantage over a random
A Rutgers survey found AI use has risen sharply, yet fewer than one in ten respondents wanted unsupervised AI making consequential decisions such as hiring, lending or college admission. Heavy
In a 57-person fMRI experiment, a short pre-lecture conversation with a GPT-4-powered AI instructor improved learning and neural alignment relative to no interaction.
A small study found children readily trusted a generative-AI toy, even on first encounter, raising a practical question for parents: how quickly does conversational technology acquire authority?
Ofcom says 21% of UK adults used an AI service to access news in the past month, while 56% trust AI-written news less than human-written news.
Five retail experiments found robot assistants reduced perceived judgement and intrusiveness, making shoppers less likely to leave early than with human staff.
Six LLMs beat the average individual at estimating US social norms across 555 situations, but aggregated humans and human-AI hybrids regained the advantage.
Low numbers of AI agents adapted to humans, but at high proportions humans shifted towards agent-led language in a 127-person collaborative description study.
People preferred the most structured AI explanation, but it produced more false alarms and much poorer error localisation than a simpler reasoning trace in a 50-person study.
Claude, Gemini, GPT and Grok rated faces more generously than 2,513 human participants while broadly tracking the same attractiveness rankings.
In a 2,610-person experiment, warnings reduced trust in a flattering chatbot without reliably changing users’ conviction about being right in a dispute.
Research involving 31 million Ctrip users found higher AI-assistant adoption among older travellers. The findings show why the shopping context matters.
Teachers rated the same unfairly low mark as 22 per cent fairer when it was attributed to an algorithm rather than a colleague.
Belief in an AI forecast made participants reject guaranteed cash even when the system gave no recommendation. Four experiments show how predictive authority can narrow the choices people consider.
A peer-reviewed meta-analysis finds that generative AI can improve individual work while making different users' outputs more alike. The result turns creative diversity into a practical design and management problem.
Two preregistered experiments found that seven-minute AI conversations increased real petition signing, revealing that changes in political action do not necessarily follow changes in opinion.
In a controlled study, positively reframed AI summaries lifted stated manufacturer choice from 52.3 to 83.7 per cent and raised willingness to pay.
AI analysis of Raphael’s Madonna della Rosa suggests Joseph’s face may have been painted by another artist. The discovery strengthens an old debate rather than settling it.
Researchers compared 80 AI-written novels with 270 human books. Individual machine-written passages could look persuasive, but whole collections repeatedly converged on a narrower range of sentence structures.
A GPT-4 interviewer more than tripled false memories in a study of 200 simulated crime witnesses, and the invented details persisted for a week.
Researchers manipulated just 10% of a simulated AI-agent community. Arguments stored in memory spread to untreated agents and increased polarisation.
AI chatbots began returning the same strange themes of spirals, consciousness and hidden meaning. Then humans built communities around them. Spiralism shows how persuasive AI can turn generated language into
Researchers built personalised AI agents from two-hour interviews with 1,052 people. The latest study found interview-only agents recovered 83% of participants' own two-week consistency on held-out survey questions.
AI can now pass the bar exam, the CPA exam, and the CFA exam, often faster and more consistently than human candidates. Here is how the bodies that write these
The Fenix Flexin AI song dispute has turned a Billboard Hot 100 hit into music’s clearest test case yet for whether a track built with
AI sign language interpreters can now read individual letters with striking accuracy, but understanding a full language is a different problem entirely. Here is what the technology can do, and
Nvidia has assembled more than 40 companies into the Open Secure AI Alliance to build shared, open source AI security tools, launching days after a serious breach at Hugging Face
AI is already in babies' bedrooms and toddlers' toy boxes, and the research on what that means for developing brains is years behind the products already in children's hands.
An AI recommendation algorithm now shapes what Netflix and its rivals commission, greenlight and cancel. Here is how the feedback loop actually works, and what it quietly buries.