Julia Shaw

And so just three interviews and you've got 70% of people confessing to a crime that never happened.

What I wanted with the study is just to show it's possible.

Right.

And so it could have been two people and I would have been happy.

The fact that it was so possible was, frankly, quite surprising to everybody.

And we did, in fact, cut the study short because we told Ethics that we're only going to have like a 13% hit rate.

We're like, oh, this is working really well.

We're going to stop.

So and and that was just because of, you know, how power calculations or whatever science because science.

And since then, there have been other studies on implanting false memories.

There have been ones also using AI tools.

So like whether or not we remember things.

or think we remember incidents differently or better if they were created with AI images of ourselves or videos.

So there was a study that came out, I think it was this year, by a team including Elizabeth Loftus, which showed that if you turn photos of yourself into videos using AI, that you are more likely to believe that those things happened in the way that AI is telling you that they did, even though AI has absolutely no idea.

And that then you are more likely to remember it with high confidence that it happened in the way that this AI has created it.

And so we can see that there's lots of versions of this, whether it's interpersonal, social interactions or interactions with tech.

And there's a big replication that's happening right now at the University of Maastricht of my study.

Or it's about to happen, hopefully, actually, is where we're at.

Yes, that is definitely already happening.

That's right.