ShakingMyHead

Well, sure, but that was six months ago.

So basically subreddit simulator?

You can eat paint. You shouldn't, but you can. He also has a court date so that's quite the dedication if it was a stunt.

Dubai is in the United Arab Emirates, not Saudi Arabia.

Do they really think that using these scummy tactics will somehow result in more positive opinions towards AI?

Well, where would someone complain about their scummy tactics? All the places where they could have were shut down.

So, I'm not an expert study-reader or anything, but it looks like they took some questions from the MMLU, modified it in some unspecified way and put it into 3 categories (AI, human, AI-human), and after accounting for skill, determined that people with higher theory of mind had a slightly better outcome than people with lower theory of mind. They determined this based on what the people being tested wrote to the AI, but what they wrote isn't in the study.
What they didn't do is state that people with higher theory of mind are more likely to use AI or anything like that. The study also doesn't mention empathy at all, though I guess it could be inferred.

Not that any of that actually matters because how they determined how much "theory of mind" each person had was to ask Gemini 2.5 and GPT-4o.

Chariots of the Gods was released in 1968. I think that ship may have sailed decades ago.

Out of all of the things he did, that is one of those things.