[zmj]

There's already some experimental evidence that LLMs can be more persuasive than humans in the same context: https://www.science.org/content/article/unethical-ai-researc...

I don't think anyone can confidently make assertions about the upper bound on persuasiveness.

[PollardsRho]

I don't think there's a confident upper bound. I just don't see why it's self-evident that the upper bound is beyond anything we've ever seen in human history.