AI Out-Persuades Humans: New Study Shows AI Superior to Experts

A study by Oxford, Stanford, and LSE researchers finds AI systems consistently out-persuade expert humans across four experiments involving 18,978 conversations. AI exceeded professional canvassers by 10.8 percentage points in real-world donations to Save the Children, with Opus 4.1 and Opus 4.6 showing the strongest persuasion performance.