BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Hannon Hill Events//Cascade CMS//EN VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:Laird Lecture - Dr. Gordon Pennycook: Dialogues with AI demon strate the persuasiveness of facts and evidence X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20260121T123000 DTEND:20260121T132000 DTSTAMP:20260420T055338 UID:9900fb4b0362d85a0d54df8fadcdceab CREATED:20260107T090857 DESCRIPTION:Although motivated reasoning makes people resistant to belief- challenging evidence\, research shows AI can provide personalized countere vidence. Which produces durable belief change\, including a 20% reduction in conspiracy beliefs. This effect persists despite strong incentives to r eject the AI\, failing only when AI cannot use facts or evidence. LAST-MODIFIED:20260112T102334 SEQUENCE:0 STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Laird Lecture - Dr. Gordon Pennycook: Dialogues with AI demonstrat e the persuasiveness of facts and evidence TRANSP:OPAQUE END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR