VIGIL: An Extensible System for Real-Time Detection and Mitigation of Cognitive Bias Triggers
The rise of generative AI is posing increasing risks to online information integrity and civic discourse. Most concretely, such risks can materialise in the form of mis- and disinformation. As a mitigation, media-literacy and transparency tools have been developed to address factuality of information and the reliability and ideological leaning of information sources. However, a subtler but possibly no less harmful threat to civic discourse is to use of persuasion or manipulation by exploiting human cognitive biases and related cognitive limitations. To the best of our knowledge, no tools exist to directly detect and mitigate the presence of triggers of such cognitive biases in online info...
| Authors | Bo Kang, Sander Noels, Tijl De Bie |
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| Primary category | cs.CL |
| Published | 12 March 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 20 April 2026 |
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