False information takes advantage of evolutionary adaptations for social harmony. Misinformation thrives by offering ...

It's not that believers in conspiracy theories are massively overconfident; there is no data on that, because the studies ...

AI may be fueling psychotic delusions in a phenomenon known as "AI psychosis" or "ChatGPT psychosis." New research explains ...

A new study warns of “AIPasta,” a strategy that uses generative AI to craft many slightly different versions of false claims to mimic widespread public belief.

WILLIAM Kingdon Clifford was a Victorian-era English philosopher who did not live long enough (he died at age 33) to become ...

In my writing and rhetoric courses, students have plenty of opinions on whether AI is intelligent: how well it can assess, ...

Tangherlini sees narratives like these, and the many other conspiracies that are rife in today’s internet culture, as a type of modern-day folklore. As a computational folklorist, he uses AI tools to ...

False belief: “Illegal immigrants at the southern border are bringing fentanyl and massive drugs across the border.” Fact: Just 0.02% of people arrested by the Border Patrol for crossing ...

In a group of 222 white medical students, half indicated they believed at least one of 11 false beliefs about racial physiological differences were possibly, probably or definitely true, according ...