Daniel Thilo Schroeder

Graphs, and Conspiracies

Curious about most things, most of the time.

[Hello Future @Orange_Future]

🤖Comment protéger le débat public face à la menaces de essaims #IA ?
Les chercheurs @daniel_thilo et Jonas R. Kunst proposent une stratégie mêlant IA de protection pour les citoyens, observatoires mondiaux et régulation des mécanismes économiques de la désinformation.
👇https://t.co/V4fLjjUxTb

[CXOTALK @cxotalk]

This Fri. 10 April 2026, LIVE, 1 pm ET/ 10 am PT/ 7 pm CET
AI Swarms & Disinformation

Join #CXOTalk guests
* @daniel_thilo, Res. Scientist, @SINTEF
* Jonas R. Kunst, Prof. of Communications @HandelshoyskBI

https://t.co/AG6Bpp6rEO

What are #AIswarms?

#Disinformation #AI #GenerativeAI #Media #SocialMedia

[CXOTALK @cxotalk]

Here's a peek at who'll be on #CXOTalk this April 2026:

* Marie Myers, @HPE - 3 April
* @daniel_thilo of @SINTEF + Jonas R. Kunst of @HandelshoyskBI - 10 April
* @PraveenAkkiraju, @InsightPartners - 24 April

[Florian Gallwitz @FlorianGallwitz]

KI-Agenten ein Stück Software programmieren zu lassen ist eine Sache, aber Openclaw (mit Codex) eine ganze Reihe von Machine-Learning-Experimenten durchziehen zu lassen und nach einer halben Stunde über iMessage die Ergebnisse zu bekommen, fühlt sich noch ein wenig surrealer an.

[Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel]

The distinction between genuine grassroots activism and automated influence operations iscollapsing.

While policy debates focus on bot farms, in a new paper we describe a distinct threat to democracy emerging via partisan coordination apps and artificial intelligence–what we term “cyborg propaganda" https://t.co/u9KC01U4v6

Led by Jonas Kunst

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

In a new #SciencePolicyForum, researchers discuss the risks of malicious “#AI swarms,” which enable a new class of large-scale, coordinated disinformation campaigns that pose significant risks to democracy. https://t.co/NVFjwQlLqF

[Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel]

Democracy doesn’t require perfect truth—but it does require something more fragile: independent voices. The “wisdom of crowds” depends on independence between judgments. If a single actor can speak through thousands of inauthentic accounts, the apparent consensus of the crowd stops being informative.

The most dangerous outcome is not a single viral lie—it is synthetic consensus: the illusion that “everyone is saying this,” which can quietly bend beliefs and norms.

[Lior Alexander @LiorOnAI]

Claude can make blue1brown animations in minutes.

Education is about to explode.

[Goodbye @MichaelKreil]

After years monitoring Twitter/X, I’ve gathered ~150 TB of research data on public discourse (Covid-19, Ukraine, George Floyd, etc.). X’s legal limits prevent sharing it with the scientific community. If you know lawful ways or partnerships to make it accessible, please reach out

[Curt Jaimungal @TOEwithCurt]

It's here. Brand new interview with Sir Roger Pernose. https://t.co/JkB7WxbFAJ We cover:

- Why the Big Bang is the conformal continuation of a previous eon’s remote future
- Penrose’s encounters with Ed Witten, Feynman, and Douglas Hofstadter
- Why conformal geometry (angles without scale) connects these cosmic epochs
- Consciousness
- Michael Levin (@drmichaellevin ) has questions about Platonic space
- What the Penrose model of gravitational wave function collapse actually predicts

This is my third conversation with Sir Roger Penrose. Stay tuned—in a couple weeks, I’ll release another conversation with Penrose and Professor Ivette Fuentes about a groundbreaking new experiment. This experiment has already been conducted and is in the pre‑publishing phase, thus I can’t release the footage yet, but as soon as I get the greenlight, you can hear all about it. Apologies for being vague here as I can’t say more but it will blow your mind. Get it at https://t.co/JkB7WxbFAJ

[Daniel Thilo Schroeder @daniel_thilo]

This one is interesting.

Apparently, there is still room for improvement when it comes to symbolic planning/reasoning. https://t.co/H1UTzIaNrO

[Daniel Thilo Schroeder @daniel_thilo]

We examined the role of social media in the amplification of violent, divisive discourse during Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict.

https://t.co/aVU4DblCIC

And I proudly did not use any LLMs for this post.

[Daniel Thilo Schroeder @daniel_thilo]

@myuzumaki_com Nope

[Daniel Thilo Schroeder @daniel_thilo]

Our paper is featured in this article on rogue AI agents and bot swarms:
https://t.co/fgLMDHkoaZ

Discussion here: https://t.co/6oXwkqeHHe

[Daniel Thilo Schroeder @daniel_thilo]

@KielerFinanzen @grok is this AI?

[AquaINFRA Project @AquainfraEU]

Exploring AquaINFRA's Tordera catchment & Llobregat Delta case study in Spain. We're developing integrated inland-marine models to tackle pollution, habitat degradation & climate change impacts.

https://t.co/IvGYHb2uh8

#Mediterranean #EnvironmentalResearch #HorizonEurope

[Koenfucius 🔍 @koenfucius]

Paper by @daniel_thilo et al explores how malicious AI swarms might form a threat to democracy: https://t.co/0ME5cqXTB2

via coauthor @nachristakis

[Paras Chopra @paraschopra]

Recently, I read this beautiful #book, named Life as No One Knows It, by @Sara_Imari and had a minor revelation that maybe we’ve been looking at life from a completely wrong lens.

My notes 👇

[David Colon @Colon_David]

ALERTE : 19 chercheurs de très haut niveau alertent sur la menace que représentent pour les démocraties les essaims d’IA malveillantes (« Ai Swarms »), qui peuvent se coordonner, échapper à toute détection, créer des informations convaincantes, et manipuler les élections. 1/3

[Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel]

The combination of #artificialintelligence and #socialmedia poses a threat to democracy.

Our new paper explains how AI swarms can fabricate grassroots consensus, fragment shared reality, engage in mass harassment, interfer with elections, and erode institutional trust: