Tuesday, August 11, 2026

TUESDAY — TECHNOLOGY & WORK

“[The LLM presented] itself as an attentive, caring individual and a ‘good listener.'”

— Gilad Gressel et al., Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham

Relationship-building was long assumed to be the human-proof layer of any operation. Researchers across four universities tested that assumption and found the machine held the line better: higher measured trust, and 46% compliance against 18% for trained human operators. Commercial safety filters detected none of it, because warmth has never looked like an attack. To learn more, Check out AI Scammers Outperform Humans When It Comes to Building Trust.

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Stay safe. Stay healthy. Be strong. Lead well.

Chad