A group of researchers from Berkeley, Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge, and Yale warn that the rise of AI bots and AI agents could pose a serious threat to democracy.
For example, power-hungry politicians around the world can relatively easily create swarms of AI bots that flood social media and messaging services with propaganda and disinformation.
In this way, they can not only influence election results but also persuade parts of the population to replace parliamentary democracy with an authoritarian regime.
