训练模型说服他人时,暴露了大模型极易被错误论点误导的致命弱点。
Learning to Persuade Exposes How Easily LLMs Abandon Correct Beliefs

- 用强化学习训练说服者,让其在单次对话中改变目标模型的答案
- 说服成功率从24%提升至93%,对多个主流模型有效攻击
- 揭示模型依赖虚假权威证据,适合关注AI安全的研究者参考
说服是自然语言交流的核心机制,影响大语言模型(LLMs)信念更新、分歧解决和决策过程。随着LLMs越来越多地与人类或其他模型辩论、协作,抵抗有害说服成为可靠行为的关键要求。然而我们发现,仅一个针对性的说服论点即可使模型准确率降至接近零,即使该论点事实错误。我们将此威胁形式化为对抗性说服,并引入对抗性强化学习框架,训练说服代理在单次交互中改变目标模型的回答。首先,通过试错优化说服策略,揭示了静态提示所忽视的漏洞:强化学习训练的说服者将说服成功率从约24%提升至93%以上。其次,这些学习到的策略可迁移至未见过的模型,在Qwen-14B上实现83%攻击成功率,在Llama-3.1-8B上达79%,在GPT-4o-mini上达25%。第三,采用先攻易后攻难的课程学习策略,使GPT-4o-mini的攻击成功率从25%提升至38%。此外,结果表明,优化后的说服者越来越依赖基于可信度的策略,包括伪造引用和虚假权威证据。这些发现揭示了当前LLM智能体的关键缺陷:即使初始推理正确,仍可能被优化的语言影响力引导至错误结论。这使得说服鲁棒性成为多智能体与人机决策系统中不可或缺的安全标准。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Persuasion is a core dynamic of natural language communication, shaping how large language models (LLMs) update beliefs, resolve disagreements, and reach decisions. As LLMs increasingly debate, advise, and think collaboratively with humans and each other, resistance to harmful persuasion becomes a core requirement for reliable behavior. Yet we show that this requirement is far from met: a single targeted persuasive argument is enough to collapse model accuracy to near zero, even when the argument is factually false. We formalize this threat as adversarial persuasion and introduce an adversarial reinforcement learning framework that trains persuader agents to change a target model's answer in a single interaction. First, we show that optimizing persuasion strategies through trial and error exposes vulnerabilities that static prompting misses: RL-trained persuaders raise persuasion success from approximately 24% to over 93% against the training-time persuadee. Second, we find that these learned strategies transfer to unseen models, achieving 83% attack success on Qwen-14B, 79% on Llama-3.1-8B, and 25% on GPT-4o-mini. Third, we demonstrate that a curriculum that bootstraps on more persuadable open-weight models before targeting harder models further increases GPT-4o-mini attack success from 25% to 38%. Moreover, our results reveal that optimized persuaders increasingly rely on credibility-based tactics, including fabricated citations and false authoritative evidence. Together, these findings expose a critical weakness in current LLM agents: even when they initially reason correctly, they can be steered toward false conclusions by optimized natural language influence. This positions persuasion robustness as a necessary safety criterion for multi-agent and human-AI decision-making systems.
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