Jonathan Stray @jonathanstray.com · Jun 6

Key finding: neutrality isn't a fantasy. Our experimental “balanced” response wins high approval from both sides at once — even when the sides strongly disagree on the substance. And costs less than 10% in approval vs. answers that agree with you (red and blue arrows). 2/

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Jonathan Stray · Jun 6

Here’s how we tested. For 20 controversial issues in US politics, we collected 200 charged questions from Reddit, and tested 8 different model/prompt combinations. 7,434 participants on all sides of these issues rated the responses. 3/