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Although prior research has often found that conservatives tend to be skeptical of new technologies, these findings reveal a more complex pattern: when AI recommendations appear to reflect a person’s own previous choices, conservatives are more inclined to follow them—driven by a broader preference for consistency and resistance to change.
Across a series of controlled online experiments, participants were asked to imagine or respond to AI-generated recommendations for movies, music, or recipes. In some cases, they were told the recommendation was based on their own past preferences. In others, this detail was omitted or changed—such as when the recommendation was intentionally described as novel or different from what the user usually consumed.
Participants also rated their political ideology on a scale from liberal to conservative. The researchers then analyzed how likely each group was to accept or follow the AI-generated suggestion.
In contrast to the widespread assumption that conservatives are more skeptical of new technologies, the studies consistently found that conservatives were more likely than liberals to accept AI-generated recommendations—but only under specific conditions.
The effect was strongest when participants believed that the AI recommendation was based on their own past behavior, such as previous music choices or favorite movie genres.
The findings shed light on an important psychological factor influencing AI adoption, but they do not suggest that conservatives are universally more enthusiastic about AI. The studies focused on low-stakes, everyday consumption contexts, where familiarity and consistency are appealing. Other research has shown that in high-stakes settings—such as medical decisions or autonomous vehicles—conservatives may remain more cautious or skeptical toward AI.
Conservatives in the US have the lowest intelligence of any group in the modern history of the world.
its not so much lowest intelligence, its fear of being pushed out of the in-group
so they will twist their logic to conform with the group-think, many times in ways that are intelligent even if cynical and hypocritical
One causes the other. It is 100% lowest intelligence + brains full of lead
I’ve got lead poisoning and I’d still never vote conservative. Personally I think at least part of it is being raised to believe in sky fairies that “love” you so much that they’d torture you for eternity for not falling in line, and thinking for yourself is somehow a bad thing.
A friend’s kid used to be a relatively smart person until she got involved in the church and believed in the bullshit, now she’s basically impossible to talk to because she simply doesn’t live in reality anymore. Indoctrination and brainwashing plays a large part of it.
You’re exactly right, religious indoctrination requires suppression of critical thinking. This invades every aspect of the victim’s life, including political alignment.
Yup. Where I live is overwhelmingly religious and also unsurprisingly a conservative stronghold as well. It’s like living in a video game full of badly scripted NPCs.
But if they were actually critical thinkers in the first place, then they wouldn’t be able to be religiously indoctrinated
Nah, don’t underestimate how much it affects people to be indoctrinated as a child. It took me until I was an adult to properly leave the religion I grew up with because children are vulnerable to indoctrination.
My friends and parents all forced my brother and I into church since kids. My brother and I easily saw how corrupt and morally bankrupt it all is - yes, even as children. No way we would ever follow that shit.
Yes children are vulnerable, but dont underestimate them and let them be how they want to be, they are also very intelligent. I bet most of them dont even want to go to church in the slightest
I’ve seen this game played by conservatives in red states. Wealthier, whiter cohorts tend to have lower dropout rates and more college degrees. So you end up getting some real “FBI Crime Statistics” tier analysis when you go into Mississippi and start asserting all those uneducated [poor black] voters are stupidly voting for Democrats while the intellectual elite [rich white] voters are smartly voting Republican.
Scale this up nationally, and you get the same impact reversed. Liberals tend to live in big urban neighborhoods with more money for education, more professional jobs, and more creditworthiness (which is critical to accessing college, owning a home, etc). Conservatives tend to live in the exurbs, work in the extraction industries, foregoing education in pursuit of immediate income, and suffering the various indignities of being lower class.
But when you get under the hood of their politics… Don’t tell me Eric Adams isn’t as big of a techbro idiot as anyone on the DOGE staff. Don’t tell me Gavin Newsom and Kristen Gillibrand aren’t as much slaves to Silicon Valley as JD Vance or Steve Scalise. Don’t try and sell me on John Fetterman being a smart guy because he came up through the Dem party.
They are also dumber, study finds.
TL;DR: Conservatives are fucking idiots. Full stop.
Well, of course they are. AI generation is the ultimate narcissist mirror. It always agrees, always appeases and never antagonizes. There’s also a correlation with political conservative world views and dark personality traits like narcissism. It’s no wonder they love the narcissism machine.
Surprise surprise, the people who support the obvious grifters and crooks, and who are convinced the problems of the world are due to immigrants and trans people, are especially gullible.
Tell me they’re stupid with out telling me they’re stupid.
Stupid and too lazy to fact check something said with authority as long it fits their bias.
That said, I am stupid and too lazy to fact check this information because it fits my biases.
You’re not incorrect… definitely fits my biases too
They have narrative brains that work in a very linear fashion.
Warning: essay ahead.
This may seem like a more wordy way of saying “stupid” but if we understood the mechanics of what kind of stupidity it is, we could have controlled this situation from much earlier on instead of letting the world’s worst criminals pied-piper these dumbasses.
They don’t do narrative thought with language. I had this realization when talking to someone who leans conservative who actually got therapy and said how CBT changed his life.
If you’ve never had CBT, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, the crux of it is to interrupt your mental health episodes with conscious, language-based thinking and re-narrativizing your head-stories. Basically, it’s learning to talk to yourself in a way to not ruminate on your feelings so the negative feelings pass quicker.
What struck me on this was the idea that not only had this person never tried to use his mind in a cognitive, present way to control his feelings, he rarely if ever used his mind in a language-based way to examine a problem in his life. CBT didn’t just open a new way to manage his feelings, it opened up a new way to look at the entire world. (No idea yet if it will impact his politics, but he is a lot easier to talk to about larger issues now that his emotions aren’t flaring up about every little thing.)
If you have an internal dialogue or monologue, you may take this for granted, but there are a LOT of people who don’t, and the brain gets by just fine without language going on inside your head. We have thousands of layers of sub-systems that can analyze situations and find appropriate actions and responds within fractions of seconds, but it’s not necessarily conscious and controlled. Your brain’s conscious layer is just a story-telling device, it’s not rational nor logical. It just assembles all the data into a coherent picture. Not a correct picture, just one that connects.
This is where many of the country’s conservatives are, the narration in their heads is supplied by outside forces because they don’t have their own, their emotions override any chance of critical analysis and they may have never in their life tried to consciously think about anything, much less their own feelings and thoughts.
If you know someone like this, you may change their whole universe if you introduce this idea, and get them to think “on purpose” for a period of time. it’s uncomfortable for some, but some people want to be able to do more with their minds. We need to encourage it and try to pull people up.
AKA they are more gullible.
OJ didn’t do it.
They are stupid. The fact they blindly trust AI is just another data point in favor of that.
blindly trust AI if it tells them what they want to hear
FTFY
Tell a conservative what they want to hear, and they’ll gladly follow you straight off a cliff.
LLMs are winging it through every conversation they ever have.
Conservatives lack reasonable bullshit spotting skills.
LLMs often start by telling you that you are right, irrespective of the facts.
Conservatives don’t Lille having their worldview challenged by facts.
Of course conservatives would happily swallow ai slop.
“Conservatives not as good at critical thinking”
Conservatives seek to maintain the status quo, so its not really surprising they like it when something tells them the thing they already like is the thing to like. Nice to have it confirmed through science though.
The study did not consider this effect in the experiments, but that could be an interesting follow-up.
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The title could also be: “Conservatives are more likely to be entertained by jiggling keys in front of them”
But the rest of the world sees democrats, non voters and republicans as dumb, dumber and dumbest respectively.
Considering conservatives were reported to also be more likely to believe fake news it seems the two could be correlated.
I think a big part of this is probably related to religion and the conservative mindset about traditional families. In other words, authoritarianism.
Religions teach followers blind obedience. Even if a person tries to reason for themselves, they are required to change their minds if their conclusions don’t match what their religious leaders tell them to believe.
Similarly, the traditional family that conservatives espouse is one where the children’s primary trait is obedience.
All of this authoritarianism training is going to make people more vulnerable to AI flummery. AI is very good at sounding confident and convincing. And because conservative children have been stripped of their natural human ability to reason for themselves, all they have left in their toolbox to determine the validity of written words are how confident the writer sounds.
