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Help with the mass persuasion campaign that will start this spring.
The great persuasion theorist Robert Cialdini says we've got to get our favors back.
Of course someday, in the deep future, a technology of persuasion even more powerful than PowerPoint may be invented, rendering dancers unnecessary as tools of rhetoric.
We are today talking about moral persuasion: What is moral and immoral in trying to change people's behaviors by using technology and using design?
What I can do and what I would like to do with you is give you, like that initial question, a set of questions to figure out for yourselves, layer by layer, like peeling an onion, getting at the core of what you believe is moral or immoral persuasion.
And speaking of values: I've noticed that in the discussion about moral persuasion online and when I'm talking with people, more often than not, there is a weird bias.
Teaching elements of persuasion, it doesn't get any more real than that.
So violence interruptors hired from the same group, credibility, trust, access, just like the health workers in Somalia, but designed for a different category, and trained in persuasion, cooling people down, buying time, reframing.
And what I've realized is that political persuasion doesn't begin with ideas or facts or data.
Political persuasion begins with being emotionally correct.
A lot of persuasion, a lot of wonderful collaboration with other people, and bit by bit, it worked.
But also ... we really need some persuasion if we're going to accept this.
Rhetoric, according to Aristotle, is the art of seeing the available means of persuasion.
And perhaps just as important is being able to notice when these same methods of persuasion are being used on you.
Other methods may be more intense using techniques of coercive persuasion involving guilt, shame, and fear.
And when we studied conservatives and had them make persuasive arguments in support of making English the official language of the US, a classically conservative political position, we found that they weren't much better at this. 59 percent of them made arguments in terms of one of the more conservative moral values, and just eight percent invoked a liberal moral value, even though they were supposed to be targeting liberals for persuasion.
It's by separating ideas from identity and being genuinely open to persuasion.
People with the technical skills of debate and persuasion.
The only form of ethical persuasion that exists is when the goals of the persuader are aligned with the goals of the persuadee.
Now, that's a persuasion architecture.
Now, in the physical world, such persuasion architectures are kind of limited, because you can only put so many things by the cashier.
In the digital world, though, persuasion architectures can be built at the scale of billions and they can target, infer, understand and be deployed at individuals one by one by figuring out your weaknesses, and they can be sent to everyone's phone private screen, so it's not visible to us.
But if the people in power are using these algorithms to quietly watch us, to judge us and to nudge us, to predict and identify the troublemakers and the rebels, to deploy persuasion architectures at scale and to manipulate individuals one by one using their personal, individual weaknesses and vulnerabilities, and if they're doing it at scale through our private screens so that we don't even know what our fellow citizens and neighbors are seeing, that authoritarianism will envelop us like a spider's web and we may not even know we're in it.
It's because it works great as a persuasion architecture.
Either Facebook is a giant con of half a trillion dollars and ads don't work on the site, it doesn't work as a persuasion architecture, or its power of influence is of great concern.
By open-sourcing the lab to encourage access and inclusivity, I also run the risk of enabling powerful governments and profit-driven companies to appropriate the platform for fake news, marketing or other forms of mass persuasion.
And if you want to do it by persuasion, you are competing against all other powerful forces that are trying to persuade people, parties, religion, education system.
Second point is that persuasion is often better than compulsion.
This first challenge is what I refer to as the persuasion challenge.
I'll give you a good example of how it actually effects persuasion.
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