HUMHUM-004 — Trust and Acceptance Issues
AI Persuasion Tools Fragment Society into Isolated Epistemic Communities
3/5Sector: OtherGeography: GlobalStage: OperateIngested: —
Executive Summary
Widespread deployment of AI-driven persuasion and personalisation tools risks fracturing public discourse into sealed echo chambers with no shared factual basis. Boards face reputational and regulatory exposure as trust in information ecosystems erodes and stakeholder alignment becomes structurally harder to achieve.
Domain
Human Factors
Blindspots in change management, skills, human-AI collaboration, trust, workforce, and culture.
Source
MIT AI Risk Repository — A Survey of the Potential Long-term Impacts of AI: How AI Could Lead to Long-term Changes in Science, Cooperation, Power, Epistemics and Values (Clarke2023) ↗https://airisk.mit.edu/
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