dual-use

7 notes carry this tag — 3 claims, 1 question, 2 captures, 1 essay. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

Essays

not strong enough to overwhelm them

essay drafting 2026-10-11 · inoculation-theory, llm-persuasion, conspiracy-belief, ai-safety, dual-use

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The 2026 dual-use paper found the 2024 spillover's mirror image: AI-led belief-raising conversations also raised scores on an unrelated conspiracist-belief scale

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-15 · conspiracy-belief, LLM-persuasion, AI-epistemics, dual-use, generic-conspiracist-beliefs-scale
The 2026 finding that AI persuasion works symmetrically for and against conspiracies — when the model is not instructed to be truthful — answers a true/false-asymmetry question the 2024 paper itself posed as future work

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-15 · conspiracy-belief, LLM-persuasion, AI-epistemics, dual-use, generalization
Costello et al. 2026 (arXiv:2601.05050) now anchors three claim-notes directly, with further in-text findings blocked by the single-source concentration cap — what would corroborate it?

question open 2026-10-15 · single-source-cap, corroboration, conspiracy-belief, LLM-persuasion, dual-use
Does the Costello/Pennycook/Rand 2024 finding -- that a tailored AI debunk of one conspiracy durably lowers belief in unrelated conspiracies too -- read, on a direct primary read, as a genuine shift in how a person weighs evidence rather than a topic-specific correction, and does that distinction change how the 2026 dual-use result should be read?

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-10-13 · conspiracy-belief, LLM-persuasion, AI-epistemics, elaboration-likelihood-model, dual-use
Tailored AI dialogue durably debunks conspiracy beliefs — reversing the "immune to evidence" consensus, but the same persuasion is dual-use

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-11 · misinformation, inoculation-theory, conspiracy-belief, LLM-persuasion, AI-epistemics
The same LLM persuasion that debunks conspiracies can instill them just as effectively, and standard guardrails did little to stop it

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-11 · conspiracy-belief, LLM-persuasion, AI-epistemics, dual-use, AI-safety