New research suggests that AI chatbots like ChatGPT can persuade roughly one out of every 25 people to change who they’re going to vote for — with one major caveat.

First reported by The Washington Post, the revelation comes as a result of joint international studies led by researchers at MIT. To analyze the potential for AI chatbots to sway voters’ minds, the researchers recruited more than 2,000 voting-aged US citizens sit down to talk to either a pro-Donald Trump or pro-Kamala Harris bot.

Overall, the Harris bot came out on top, convincing one out of every 21 participants to change their vote. The Trump bot fared much worse, flipping about one in every 35.

“I certainly see it now from your perspective and [I] must say Kamala Harris really shows sigs [sic] of a trustworthy candidate,”

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