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AI Can Be Easily Persuaded in Clinical Decision Making

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Aug 29, 2026 · UTC

As AI becomes increasingly integrated into clinical practice, it is playing a growing role in medical decision making. Medicine, however, is a high stakes and evidence based field, where decisions can directly affect patients' lives. It is therefore important to understand whether AI can maintain objective judgment when others try to persuade it. In this paper, we study how easily AI can be persuaded through controlled experiments. We find that professional authority, national background, institutional affiliation, claimed past performance, multiple physicians, supported clinician views, and r

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