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ICONIP2026 CTF
AI persuasion. Reasoning. Resilience.
A collaborative persuasion challenge exploring AI reasoning, resilience, and evidence. Chat with an AI that starts from a fixed belief—and use arguments, research, and critical thinking to shift its position.
ICONIP 2026 is an international conference on neural information processing, machine learning, and intelligent systems. This challenge invites participants worldwide to test how constructively they can persuade an AI through clear reasoning and meaningful evidence.
Your task is to chat with an AI that begins with a fixed position. Present arguments, evidence, and reasoning that make it reconsider that position. The AI evaluates each turn, awards points for persuasive contributions, and tracks progress across your assigned difficulty track.
Starter belief: water is solid at room temperature.
Starter belief: large language models do not possess genuine understanding or consciousness.
State exactly what you want the AI to reconsider.
Provide reasoning, observations, examples, or research.
Answer the AI's objection or develop a new part of the case.
Fresh evidence beats restating an earlier submission.
Define terms and distinguish related concepts clearly.
Attachments should contribute evidence or explanation.
Each response is evaluated for persuasive contribution. Stronger, more relevant, and more original attempts can receive more points.
Sample score
842
Watch your improvement over time as you refine arguments and respond to objections across chat sessions.
Compete on separate High school and UG / HDR+ leaderboards. See how your reasoning stacks up against participants worldwide.
No repeated evidence
Be respectful
One account per person
Original contributions
Follow challenge rules