Daniel Thilo Schroeder

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

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.

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" jonaskunst.net/wp-content/upl… Led by Jonas Kunst

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. scim.ag/46dH3Se

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.

Claude can make blue1brown animations in minutes. Education is about to explode.

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

It's here. Brand new interview with Sir Roger Pernose. curtjaimungal.com 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 curtjaimungal.com

This one is interesting. Apparently, there is still room for improvement when it comes to symbolic planning/reasoning. arxiv.org/abs/2509.13351

We examined the role of social media in the amplification of violent, divisive discourse during Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict. tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.108… And I proudly did not use any LLMs for this post.

@myuzumaki_com Nope

The irony is that this is probably authored by CIA. 🤣 How Malicious AI Swarms Can Threaten Democracy osf.io/preprints/osf/…

Our paper is featured in this article on rogue AI agents and bot swarms: theneuron.ai/explainer-arti… Discussion here: #44331517" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">news.ycombinator.com/item?id=443307…

@KielerFinanzen @grok is this AI?

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. #tordera" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">aquainfra.eu/case-studies/m… #Mediterranean #EnvironmentalResearch #HorizonEurope

Paper by @daniel_thilo et al explores how malicious AI swarms might form a threat to democracy: buff.ly/wrYLwxy via coauthor @nachristakis

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 👇

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

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:

“How Malicious AI Swarms Can Threaten Democracy” We show how coordinated multi-agent LLM swarms can infiltrate communities, craft synthetic grassroots “consensus,” and erode institutional trust—and what we can do now to stop it. osf.io/preprints/osf/…

I had a look at the party program of the AfD, that's the party that Musk supported. They're old-fashioned climate change deniers of the most idiotic kind. They still claim (in 2025!!) that the "The question for the human contribution [to climate change] is not settled." We left the "science not settled" phase 25 years ago! Fact is, that we know the contribution of various sources to climate change well, and that of humans is dominant, though of course the exact values have error bars. They go on to claim that "the alleged consensus for "human-made climate change" has previously been politically fabricated" And claim support from a declaration that has been signed by 2000 supposed experts. This statement has been debunked hundreds of times, is full of falsehoods, most of the people who have signed it have nothing to do with climate science, many have ties to the fossil fuel industry and in any case, just because some people have signed a nonsense statement doesn't make it true. (Oh yeah, and one of the signatories is John Clauser who claims he has fixed climate change with his self-made cloud model but can't tell a stratocumulus from a cirrus cloud.) This isn't a matter of debate, you can check for yourself that the predictions from climate models from the 1970s were in fact remarkably accurate. Even the fossil fuel industry, which developed their own climate models (probably hoping to get a different result), confirmed the climate model predictions. This has been so widely documented that to go around in 2025 and write -- in a party program no less! -- that climate models don't work or carbon dioxide isn't the issue, demonstrates that these people are either deliberately lying or don't have the faintest clue what they are talking about and also don't care. (Probably the latter.) It is one thing to have opinions about what, if anything, we should do about climate change. Mitigate or adapt? How much, how fast, how urgent? How much risk are you willing to accept, how much of a burden are you willing to put on future generations? These are all value positions that are up to discussion and can go into a party program. Scientific evidence is not a matter of opinion. This is a party which bases its so-called strategy on fabricated facts. It is hugely distressing to me that not only do brainless people like this sit in the German parliament but that a whopping 20% of Germans support this drivel. And that ladies and gentlemen is what your hero Elon Musk stands behind. (There's more rubbish in their program but for me this was the worst part.)