{"id":21677,"date":"2026-01-23T09:37:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T08:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/23\/experts-warn-of-threat-to-democracy-from-ai-bot-swarms-infesting-social-media\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T09:37:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T08:37:46","slug":"experts-warn-of-threat-to-democracy-from-ai-bot-swarms-infesting-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/23\/experts-warn-of-threat-to-democracy-from-ai-bot-swarms-infesting-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Experts warn of threat to democracy from \u2018AI bot swarms\u2019 infesting social media"},"content":{"rendered":"

Misinformation technology could be deployed at scale to disrupt 2028 US presidential election, AI researchers say<\/p>\n

Political leaders could soon launch swarms of human-imitating AI agents to reshape public opinion in a way that threatens to undermine democracy, a high profile group of experts in AI and online misinformation has warned.<\/p>\n

The Nobel peace prize-winning free-speech activist Maria Ressa, and leading AI and social science researchers from Berkeley, Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge and Yale are among a global consortium flagging the new \u201cdisruptive threat\u201d posed by hard-to-detect, malicious \u201cAI swarms\u201d infesting social media and messaging channels.<\/p>\n

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\nMisinformation technology could be deployed at scale to disrupt 2028 US presidential election, AI researchers say
\nPolitical leaders could soon launch swarms of human-imitating AI agents to reshape public opinion in a way that threatens to undermine democracy, a high profile group of experts in AI and online misinformation has warned.
\nThe Nobel peace prize-winning free-speech activist Maria Ressa, and leading AI and social science researchers from Berkeley, Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge and Yale are among a global consortium flagging the new \u201cdisruptive threat\u201d posed by hard-to-detect, malicious \u201cAI swarms\u201d infesting social media and messaging channels. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Misinformation technology could be deployed at scale to disrupt 2028 US presidential election, AI researchers say Political leaders could soon launch swarms of human-imitating AI agents to reshape public opinion in a way that threatens to undermine democracy, a high profile group of experts in AI and online misinformation has warned. The Nobel peace prize-winning …<\/p>\n

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