Artificial Intelligence and the Science of Individual Psychological Manipulation
Advanced artificial intelligence models and large language models are transforming the human persuasion process into a science of individual psychological manipulation, raising various ethical and political questions.
Throughout human history, the process of persuasion, which has been an inefficient endeavor, carries the potential to evolve into a sophisticated science of individual psychological manipulation with the advancement of artificial intelligence technologies.
Artificial Intelligence and Persuasion Processes
Artificial intelligence systems and large language models are beginning to achieve extraordinary success in understanding human psychology and discovering the elements that motivate individuals.
Personalized Artificial Intelligence Experiments
An experiment published in the journal Nature Human Behaviour in 2025 clearly demonstrated that a personalized GPT-4 model is significantly more persuasive compared to its human rivals.
Certain experiments conducted around political elections have also shown that conversations held with artificial intelligence systems can alter voters' candidate preferences.
Advantages of Modern Language Models
Modern language models possess major advantages over human persuaders thanks to their ability to never tire, maintain millions of simultaneous conversations, and learn from every interaction.
Transition Process to Individual Persuasion
This technological capacity accelerates the transition from persuasion efforts targeting general demographic groups to directly individualized and personalized manipulation techniques.
The Need for Ethical and Political Regulation
The optimization problems of emotional machines and the potential applications of AI-based chat manipulation in political arenas pose unprecedented challenges.
While persuasion processes appeal to logical grounds, manipulation directly seeks psychological triggers, which increases the urgent need for regulatory frameworks.