[Opinion: AI Autonomous Agent 'Swarms' May Exacerbate Platform Manipulation Risks] According to Decrypt, researchers from multiple universities and research institutions worldwide have published a paper in *Science* warning that future online 'influence operations' are evolving from easily identifiable simple bots/zombie networks into 'swarms' composed of numerous autonomous AI agents. These swarms can coordinate to manipulate public opinion with minimal human intervention. The study states that such AI swarms can mimic human behavior, adapt their messaging across accounts and platforms, and sustain specific narratives over long periods, making it difficult for current risk control and moderation systems—primarily designed to target spam and isolated violations—to effectively detect them. Scholars point out that platforms currently exhibit significant shortcomings in identity verification, account abuse monitoring, and transparency and external auditing of abnormal coordinated behaviors. Solely relying on content moderation does not constitute an effective defense.