A new paper: Polarization by Design: How Elites Could Shape Mass Preferences as AI Reduces Persuasion Costs
- A new paper: Polarization by Design: How Elites Could Shape Mass Preferences as AI Reduces Persuasion Costs
- LLMs can be skewed by just a few hundred aligned inputs (see the Anthropic paper).
- The same is true for society.
- A small number of strongly aligned components can have an outsize impact on the whole.
- Already true for motivated adversaries like Russia, now the toolkit is available to anybody!