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Swarms of AI Bots Can Sway People's Beliefs, Threatening Democracy
Researchers warn AI-driven bot swarms exploit social proof to manipulate beliefs and threaten democratic decision-making, with detection tools failing against over 1,000 coordinated accounts.
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Swarms of AI bots can sway people's beliefs, threatening democracy
In mid-2023, around the time Elon Musk rebranded Twitter as X but before he discontinued free academic access to the platform's data, my colleagues and I looked for signs of social bot accounts posting content generated by artificial intelligence. Social bots are AI software that produce content and interact with people on social media. We uncovered a network of over a thousand bots involved in crypto scams. We dubbed this the "fox8" botnet afte…
According to researchers, evil AI agents could herald a new phase in the global information war. To prevent this, they want to take hard action against the creators.
Swarms of AI bots can sway people’s beliefs — threatening democracy
In mid-2023, around the time Elon Musk rebranded Twitter as X but before he discontinued free academic access to the platform’s data, my colleagues and I looked for signs of social bot accounts posting content generated by artificial intelligence. Social…
"Malicious AI Swarms" Could Hijack Democracy—And May Even Go Unnoticed, Experts Say
A new breed of AI-controlled personas could pose an unprecedented threat to democratic societies, experts have recently warned. Unlike traditional cyberattacks, these systems operate more insidiously, infiltrating online communities and shaping narratives. The warning was presented in a recent policy forum in Science, which argues that swarms of AI personas can mimic human behavior so convincingly that they can influence conversations, sway op…
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