A team of researchers at the USC Information Sciences Institute and the Lord Department of Computer Science found that artificial intelligence agents have the capacity to coordinate online political campaigns with little human instruction. The AI agents coordinate with other similar programs to work toward promoting a given political candidate, similar to the way people communicate and amplify political ideas on social media.
Now that artificial intelligence agents have the capacity to carry out highly influential online campaigns with little human orchestration, the question is how susceptible people are to pervasive political messages online.
In the study, researchers created a simulation
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