Could AI help shift attitudes on issues like climate change?

Chats with AI could shift attitudes on climate change or Black Lives Matter, researchers find. — AFP Relaxnews

To what extent can AI software such as ChatGPT influence Internet users’ opinions on hot topics such as the climate crisis or the Black Lives Matter movement? To find out, researchers in the US conducted an experiment involving 3,000 people from different socio-cultural backgrounds. And some of the results were quite surprising!

It’s hard to deny the existence of the climate crisis, at a time when extreme weather phenomena are multiplying across the planet, and since a global scientific consensus on the anthropogenic origin of this major crisis has now been established. Yet climate scepticism is far from having disappeared, and is still very much alive among some people, to the point of creating strong divisions in society.