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TBD | Ready for Chatbot Canvassers? - What Next | Daily News and Analysis

TBD | Ready for Chatbot Canvassers? - What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Update: 2025-12-12
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The good news is voters are more persuaded by factual claims than emotional appeals or appeals to fear. But the bad news is that A.I. chatbots, trying to convince you, will keep making factual claims long after it runs out of actual facts.




Guest: David Rand, professor of information science, marketing and psychology at Cornell University




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TBD | Ready for Chatbot Canvassers? - What Next | Daily News and Analysis

TBD | Ready for Chatbot Canvassers? - What Next | Daily News and Analysis