E2: Lewis Griffin on how Large Language Models (LLMs) could be used for political influence

Will Large Language Models (LLM) allow states to wage propaganda campaigns of unprecedented scale and persuasiveness? Or is this just another moral panic about new technology? In this episode, we talk with Lewis Griffin, Professor of Computer Vision at UCL. He has recently found some evidence that humans and LLMs can be persuaded in similar ways, and warns that it may soon be possible for states to optimise the persuasiveness of propaganda by testing it on LLMs, just like we test drugs on mice.

 Date of episode recording: 2023-10-17T00:00:00Z
 Duration: 01:23:33
 Language of episode: English 
 Presenter: Reuben Adams
 Guests: Lewis Griffin
 Producer: Reuben Adams