{"id":500925,"date":"2026-06-19T13:35:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T13:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/500925\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T13:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T13:35:07","slug":"ai-chatbots-are-more-persuasive-than-fundraisers-and-debaters-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/500925\/","title":{"rendered":"AI chatbots are more persuasive than fundraisers and debaters. Here&#8217;s why."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"R3DH7WC37VBSVB5UZF5G5LOKTE\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">It can be awkward to ask for money, even for a good cause. But a group of Britain-based researchers have found a very capable partner with no qualms about appealing for cash: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2025\/12\/04\/ai-chatbot-election-campaign\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2025\/12\/04\/ai-chatbot-election-campaign\/\">AI chatbots<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"A4KUEOYLAFDOLEHIN4EKMHFPHU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Over more than 1,000 conversations with a collection of donors, the AI model Claude was nearly three times as effective at eliciting donations for Save the Children as a group of professional fundraisers who had worked on campaigns for the humanitarian group. In addition to persuading a greater percentage of participants to donate some portion of their one-pound study bonus, Claude Opus 4.6 also elicited an average donation 13 percent higher than that elicited by the human fundraisers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It can be awkward to ask for money, even for a good cause. But a group of Britain-based&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,85,46,125],"class_list":["post-500925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}