Media

Selected press coverage, articles, videos, and talks featuring CDI members’ research—a curated collection, distinct from the running feed on News.

In the media

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.

What can we do about misinformation?

BI Business Review · 29 January 2025 · by Anton Gollwitzer

On why falsehoods are so seductive, what an LLM analysis of a century of U.S. presidential speeches reveals about the rise of “assertive falsehoods,” the real-world cost of misinformation (from COVID-19 outcomes to political violence), and which interventions—warning labels, media-literacy tips, social-norm nudges—actually curb its spread.

Terrorism is propaganda

BI Business Review · February 2017 · featuring Nick Sitter

Member Nick Sitter on terrorism as a communication strategy—how violent actors use fear and media to shape public perception, and what that means for democratic resilience.

Faculty interview: Suzanne van Gils

BI · Department of Communication and Culture

A conversation with member Suzanne van Gils on ethical and respectful leadership, moral identity, and the integrity processes that underpin trust in organizations.

Videos & talks

Algorithmic Battlefields: How Cyborg Propaganda and AI Swarms Threaten Democracy

The Hidden Dangers of Misinformation: How Falsehoods Shape Our World and Fuel Violence

How Intellectual Humility Can Help Reduce False Beliefs and Misinformation

Podcasts