Challenge: Persuasion agents are a form of communication that can be used to change people's opinions and actions for social good.
Approach: They designed an online persuasion task where one participant was asked to persult the other to donate to a specific charity.
Outcome: The proposed system could change people's opinions and actions for social good.

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