AI-Powered Social Bots
This highlights a potential threat to online security and trust from advanced AI-powered bots, though it is an incremental overview rather than a new solution.
The paper examines impersonation bots, noting that current ones are one-dimensional and easily detectable, but warns that recent AI advances could enable highly deceptive, multi-modal social bots for coordinated influence campaigns.
This paper gives an overview of impersonation bots that generate output in one, or possibly, multiple modalities. We also discuss rapidly advancing areas of machine learning and artificial intelligence that could lead to frighteningly powerful new multi-modal social bots. Our main conclusion is that most commonly known bots are one dimensional (i.e., chatterbot), and far from deceiving serious interrogators. However, using recent advances in machine learning, it is possible to unleash incredibly powerful, human-like armies of social bots, in potentially well coordinated campaigns of deception and influence.