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The danger of AI is not that it will become conscious and hate us, but that it will become competent and ignore us."

—Eliezer Yudkowsky

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.