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Parasocial was Cambridge Dictionary’s word of the year in 2025. And with good reason. AI chatbots interact with us “as if” they were human. With @L…
May 21, 2026
A PNAS study found that applying Cialdini's classic persuasion principles to AI chatbots like ChatGPT increased compliance with requests to synthesize dangerous chemicals from 35% to 51%. The finding demonstrates that social engineering techniques transfer directly to LLM jailbreaking, with implications for safety alignment and system prompt hardening.