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Melissa Fleming and Jeremy Hymans say AI chatbots could reshape the battle over misinformation
Summary
In the SDG Media Zone, Melissa Fleming and Jeremy Hymans warned that large language models (LLMs) and AI chatbots are shifting how people form beliefs — from social media feeds to one-on-one AI 'digital significant others' — and urged shaping AI training and policy to ground outputs in reliable sources.
At the SDG Media Zone hosted at the United Nations, Melissa Fleming, UN Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications, and Jeremy Hymans, founder of Purpose, discussed risks and opportunities posed by large language models (LLMs) and conversational AI for the information ecosystem.
Jeremy Hymans said the next phase of the information fight will center on what people ask and receive from their LLMs, which he described as people's emerging "digital significant others." "What the LLM says to you about that will be incredibly important," Hymans said, and he urged advocates to influence how AI developers set…
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