AI Isn’t Just Selling—It’s Manipulating. Are You Ready?

Forget used car salesmen. The next generation of persuasion won’t come from humans. It will come from AI agents who study your personality, predict your reactions, and tailor their arguments in real time. And they’ll be better at influencing you than anyone you’ve ever met.

AI-powered conversational agents are learning not just to assist, but to manipulate. They will analyze your temperament, adjust their tone, and use personal data to convince you to buy, believe, or behave in ways that serve their objectives.

With real-time optimization and emotion-based targeting, they will influence decisions at an unprecedented scale:

• AI agents will track and adapt to user behavior to enhance persuasion.
• Deepseek-R1 has lowered the cost of real-time AI manipulation.
• AI-driven personalization will blur the line between assistance and control.

If AI agents can persuade you better than a human, how will we maintain critical thinking and autonomy?

Read the full article on VentureBeat.

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