
Researchers from Oxford, Stanford, and other institutions found AI systems reliably more persuasive than expert humans across 18,978 conversations. AI's advantage came from rapidly deploying larger quantities of information. The strongest persuaders were Opus 4.1 and Opus 4.6, followed by models from OpenAI, Google, and xAI.
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Fewer AI agents may outperform many narrow ones