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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.
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.