Lukasz Olejnik
I want to warn that systems of this kind pose a serious danger to pluralistic societies and democracy. They can operate continuously across accounts, exploit open public debate, monitor and adapt behaviour while concealing coordinated manipulation within ordinary political discourse. They will benefit from the perfect persuasive powers of LLMs, and they will never get tired. This is a big information warfare risk.
Lukasz Olejnik
Releasing a multi-month work today! We conducted the first fully autonomous information operation (under controlled conditions). It ran the campaigns end-to-end. It's can work in full autonomous mode. After initial human guidance it can make strategic, tactical and individual decisions, including develop narratives, establish a presence, publish and amplify material, measure progress and use it to guide later actions. No human directed those individual actions. https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10920
