How malicious AI swarms can threaten democracy
2025/05/18 by Daniel Thilo Schroeder, Meeyoung Cha, Schroeder, Daniel Thilo +46 · 10 voices · 12 citations
Computer Science · Social Sciences · #Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning #Ethics and Social Impacts of AI #Network Security and Intrusion Detection
paper · pdf · doi:10.1126/science.adz1697
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The fusion of agentic AI and LLMs marks a new frontier in information warfare.
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- Our latest paper in @science.org warns about malicious AI swarms, agents capable of adaptive influence campaigns at scale. We already observed some in the wild (picture). AI is a real threat to democr [bsky, 97 points, 2 comments]
- 3/ Not fringe: Nobel laureate Maria Ressa and Oxford's Michael Wooldridge co-signed this warning in the journal Science, describing AI swarms that coordinate, infiltrate communities, and fabricate con [bsky, 63 points, 2 comments]
- Malicious AI swarms threaten to darken the democratic sun.☀️ LLMs & autonomous agents can mimick human social dynamics & enable influence campaigns to consume all.🦗 Read our @science.org experts’ c [bsky, 30 points, 0 comments]
- They were expensive, slow, and limited by time, coordination, and manpower. That constraint is disappearing. The combination of large language models and autonomous agents allows influence campaigns t [bsky, 26 points, 1 comments]
- How Malicious AI Swarms Can Threaten Democracy [lemmy, 15 points, 3 comments]
- The recommendations of this paper, published in Science yesterday, should be required reading for policymakers across the world. We need to make democratic debate more robust. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.06299 [bsky, 4 points, 0 comments]
- "How malicious AI swarms can threaten democracy: The fusion of agentic AI and LLMs marks a new frontier in information warfare" arxiv.org/abs/2506.06299 [bsky, 3 points, 0 comments]
- Synthetic cybermanipulation is already happening, and current social media protocals are enabling it. Algorithms that amplify for views plus AI gives the ability to create large numbers of various typ [bsky, 2 points, 0 comments]
- “How malicious AI swarms can threaten democracy: The fusion of agentic AI and LLMs marks a new frontier in information warfare” arxiv.org/abs/2506.06299 [bsky, 1 points, 0 comments]
- What happens to a regular user when they log onto a website, see an opinion, and then hundreds of supposedly real comments agreeing with the poster? I'm pessimistic about the future of public discours [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]
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