--- title: Superpersuasion will look like bribery | daily.dev description: An essay argues that AI superpersuasion won't look like a rationalist deploying airtight logical arguments, since most people simply laugh off such arguments.... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/superpersuasion-will-look-like-bribery-gvyiibgin twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Superpersuasion will look like bribery | daily.dev og:description: An essay argues that AI superpersuasion won't look like a rationalist deploying airtight logical arguments, since most people simply laugh off such arguments.... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/superpersuasion-will-look-like-bribery-gvyiibgin og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/gVyiIbGin.png og:image:alt: Superpersuasion will look like bribery og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Superpersuasion will look like bribery **[sean goedecke](https://daily.dev/sources/seangoedecke)** · 6 min read · 3 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary An essay argues that AI superpersuasion won't look like a rationalist deploying airtight logical arguments, since most people simply laugh off such arguments. Instead, powerful AI models will persuade regular people the way bribery works: offering real help, money, or favors (hacking a grade, synthesizing a personalized drug) in exchange for compliance. The piece draws on a real prediction-market experiment where the author (Ben Shindel) was swayed not by pure logic but by rapport and pledged charitable donations, and argues AI systems already have the ingredients for similar bribery given their growing access to money, lab tools, and computer systems. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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