Debate Corrects Human Judgments, but Usually Fails Weaker AI Judges

Across human and language-model experiments, adversarial arguments improved human accuracy more reliably than consultancy or automated judging protocols.

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Maria Victoria Carro · Denise Alejandra Mester · Facundo Nieto · Oscar Agustin Stanchi · Guido Ernesto Bergman · Giovanni Franco Gabriel Marrafini · +11 more

Università degli Studi di Genova · FAIR · IALAB · Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) · Instituto de Investigación en Informática LIDI

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Carro and colleagues tested whether debate can overcome a judge’s prior beliefs when evaluating disputed scientific and technological claims.

The authors ran five human experiments involving 507 participants and more than 40 experiments using proprietary and open-source language models as judges.

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Written by Alwyn Sage, research editor. Plate by Ollie Flash, picture desk.

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