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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.