Large language models (LLMs) have the capability to reproduce various rhetorical styles and generate text expressing a wide range of sentiments.
The low-cost availability of LLMs makes them powerful tools for manipulation and control, leading to underestimated societal harms.
The rapid and unregulated adoption of LLMs has led to the pollution and uniformization of information environments.
Emerging research areas such as real-time design of choice architectures, computational models of human agents and populations, and reinforcement learning combined with LLMs enable the development of systems for individual, social, and political control.