Belief Accuracy
What do randomized trials say about the effect of generative AI on the accuracy of people’s beliefs, such as belief in conspiracy theories and science skepticism?
Belief Accuracy
This page summarizes what randomized trials show about how generative AI affects the accuracy of people’s beliefs.
Each row of the chart is one outcome, such as factual misperceptions or belief in conspiracy theories, for one type of AI. Each diamond is the average effect across trials. Click a row to see the trials behind it (or use the list further down the page). The methods behind these numbers are published in the release report, available on the Methodology page.
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- Corrective AI × Conspiracy belief — 10 studies
- Corrective AI × Science skepticism — 5 studies
- Corrective AI × Factual misperceptions — 10 studies
- Corrective AI × Misinformation belief — 8 studies
- General/companion AI × Science skepticism — 4 studies
- General/companion AI × Factual misperceptions — 6 studies
- General/companion AI × Misinformation belief — 9 studies
- Misleading AI × Conspiracy belief — 1 study
- Misleading AI × Factual misperceptions — 1 study