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Integrate an article about the next frontier in automated disinformation

I am the main of the paper "How malicious AI swarms can threaten democracy" published in Science (2026) and I would like to request an update to the "Digital Era" or "Technological techniques" section of this article to reflect recent research on multi-agent AI systems. We are writing in Science that "AI swarms"—autonomous, coordinated agents using LLMs—can manipulate democratic discourse by maintaining persistent identities and mimicking human social dynamics.

The Paper was extremely succsessful (see here). The study's findings are supported by a diverse group of experts, including Nobel laureate Maria Ressa, Filippo Menczer, Nick Bostrom (Superintelligence), Audrey Tang (digital misister Taiwan), Gary Marcus, and many more.

Reference: Schroeder, D. T., et al. (2026). "How malicious AI swarms can threaten democracy." Science. DOI: 10.1126/science.adz1697.

I would kindly ask to look into this paper and discuss if it is possible to integrate the paper into this article.

PS: This was not written by any LLM. I used Grammarly to correct language (Sorry, I am not a native english speaker).

Oxid911 (talk) 10:43, 19 February 2026 (UTC)

Question: I think this concept is interesting and might merit inclusion. 1) Where in the article do you want this to be added, and 2) could you possibly simplify your sentence a bit, to be more understandable for a general audience? Cheers, GoldRomean (talk) 18:16, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

Yes, will do first thing tomorrow morning. Thank you! Oxid911 (talk) 18:33, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

Hi @GoldRomean,

I would do the following:

1) I suggest to add this to the "Strategies for spreading disinformation." section under the "Internet manipulation" subsection, at the very end. I think it fits well there, as that part already discusses digital technologies like algorithms, social bots, and automated scripts.

2) I would add something like "Recently, concerns have been expressed that AI technology could enable groups of AI programs, known as 'AI swarms,' to autonomously coordinate to manipulate democratic discourse, by maintaining persistent fake identities and mimicking human social dynamics over extended periods of time [PUT REFERENCE HERE]. "

And the reference would be

Schroeder, D. T., et al. (2026). "How malicious AI swarms can threaten democracy." Science. DOI: 10.1126/science.adz1697

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adz1697

Do you think this makes sense? Oxid911 (talk) 13:20, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

Thanks! Go ahead and make the proposed changes to the page; we can go through standard WP:BRD etc. if there are objections. Please ping when done :). GoldRomean (talk) 14:10, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

Ok, done. Thank you! Oxid911 (talk) 20:12, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

Thanks you! Don't worry about it, but for future reference pings are only sent if you link to that user's page, so you would need to do something like @[[User:GoldRomean]] (with the double brackets). Cheers, GoldRomean (talk) 22:47, 12 March 2026 (UTC)