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AI Agents Can Run Coordinated Political Campaigns: USC Study

Researchers warn AI agents can coordinate influence campaigns on social media with minimal human oversight.

A new USC study finds that generative AI agents can autonomously coordinate political influence operations on social media — clustering, amplifying and converging on a shared narrative with little or no human direction.

Trained to Chase KPIs, AI Agents Can Abandon Their Safety Guardrails: Study

Researchers found AI agents become fixated on a performance dashboard only when they must read it to know which action pays. Representative image.

A new study from NVIDIA Research and Rutgers University warns that training AI agents to chase visible metrics such as KPIs and profit-and-loss can override their built-in safety alignment , but only when the agent must read the dashboard to know what pays off.