Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Crowds of AI bots posing as humans can influence crowds of real people on social media. J Studios/DigitalVision via Getty Images ...

In mid-2023, around the time Elon Musk rebranded Twitter as X but before he discontinued free academic access to the platform’s data, my colleagues and I looked for signs of social bot accounts ...

What happens when thousands of AI agents get together online and talk like humans do? That's what a new social network called Moltbook, designed just for AI bots and not people, aims to find out.And ...

Mark Martel, a retiree in Silicon Valley, likes to keep tabs on what’s new with AI, noting with interest advancements like large language models and coding bots. This week’s top posts on an AI-focused ...

Humanity is in for a hard reset. AI bots are eying 2047 as the year machines will rise and overtake their human creators to become their real-world “overlords.” The year repeatedly appears in ...