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Morning Edition · Wednesday, October 14, 2026Published at 2:06 AM EDT · New York
Ten minutes of chatbot help reduced persistence once the AI was removed, three randomized trials find
The study of 1,222 participants, presented at the Conference on Language Modeling, found that people who asked for direct answers lost the most accuracy, while those who asked for hints did not show the same decline.
Researchers led by Brian Christian, a research fellow at UC Berkeley's Center for Human-Compatible AI, ran three randomized controlled trials with 1,222 online participants. The co-authors are from Carnegie Mellon, MIT, Oxford and UCLA, and…
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