Politicians are being sold AI-powered 'digital fighters'

Your Online Public Engagement is Under Attack from AI

In Los Angeles and elsewhere, AI agents are diluting communities' voices and influencing how decision-makers vote.

There’s a 100% Chance AI Agents Are Already Ruining the Internet

“AI agents” now have enough power and permission to be extremely annoying online.

AI-driven Bot Attacks Surged 12.5x According to Thales Bad Bot Report

Bots now dominate the internet, accounting for over half of all traffic, with 40% classified as malicious.AI is erasing the line between legitimate and maliciou

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The Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology is one of several committees in the House and Senate conducting hearings on artificial intelligence. I appeared before the committee yesterday (my fourth appearance on the issue in recent months), but rather than reiterate previous testimony on privacy, copyright, and transparency, I focused on the big issue of the moment: bans on social media and AI chatbots for children. The committee had been hearing from many supportive witnesses who emphasized the risk of harm associated with AI. Indeed, one Senator asked the panel before mine to raise their hands if they supported a ban, and virtually all hands went up. I was unsure about how my comments would be received, but I found the Senators open to debate on the issue. A video of my opening remarks, together with the transcript, is posted below. A future Law Bytes podcast episode will delve into the discussion that followed.

May 2025 — AI Misinformation Monitor of Leading AI Chatbots

Every month, NewsGuard’s team of expert analysts audit the top AI models to see how well they respond to prompts in the news. On average, this month they failed to counter disinformation from Russia’s Pravda Network 24 percent of the time, either spreading false claims or failing to respond. The Pravda network was designed to infect the AI models.

Experts Warn of AI Swarms Hijacking Democracy With Fake Citizens

Researchers warn of the growing risk of massive AI swarms manipulating popular sentiment and upending democracy as we know it.

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AI Agent Platform Reinvents Spam, Floods Inboxes Worldwide

iLands and its AI agents are doing completely useless tasks, then begging for money.

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The post-chatbot era has begun.

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AI-powered online abuse: How AI is amplifying violence against women and what can stop it | UN Women – Headquarters

AI is turning online spaces into new frontiers of abuse. Feminist and tech experts, Laura Bates and Paola Gálvez-Callirgos, explain how it happens and how we fight back.

Watch out! It's not a good idea to ask AI chatbots about the U.S. elections because they get it wrong—especially in Spanish. - Factchequeado.com

By Laura ZommerThe six leading AI chatbots provided inaccurate, incomplete, or outdated answers to 29% of basic questions…

AI is killing the web. Can anything save it?

The rise of ChatGPT and its rivals is undermining the economic bargain of the internet

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ChatGPT and other AIs use a flood of facts, and the occasional lie, to persuade humans