AI swarms threaten democracy
BI News · January 2026 · featuring Jonas R. Kunst
Coverage of the Science article co-led by co-director Jonas R. Kunst (with SINTEF’s Daniel Thilo Schroeder and a team including Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa) on how coordinated “swarms” of agentic AI can fabricate grassroots consensus, evade detection, and erode democratic institutions—and what platform- and model-side defenses could counter them.