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Autonomous propaganda factories: AI agents in information warfare

Name: Autonomous propaganda factories: AI agents in information warfare
Start: 2026-12-10T13:00:00Z
End: 2026-12-10T15:00:00Z
Location: Dockrill Room, Department of War Studies, (KIN 628)

Hosted by School of Security Studies

Thursday 10 December 2026 · 1:00pm · Dockrill Room, Department of War Studies, (KIN 628) · hosted by School of Security Studies

When: Thursday 10 December 2026; 1:00pm – 3:00pm
Where: Dockrill Room, Department of War Studies, (KIN 628); King's College London Strand, London, WC2R 2LS · map
Price: free; via Eventbrite

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Dr Lukasz Olejnik presents IO Factory, a research system he built to study autonomous influence campaigns run by AI agents. Experiments with tens of thousands of simulated users show how agents coordinate, push for set changes in audience attitudes and feed what they observe into their next moves.

He'll cover what the experiments do and don't establish outside the simulation, how that lines up with documented AI use in real influence operations, and what happens when systems start choosing their own objectives. Olejnik is an independent cybersecurity and privacy researcher with a computer science PhD from INRIA and author of Propaganda (CRC, 2024).

Free, 13:00 to 15:00 in King's War Studies on the Strand.

why go

evidence on agentic disinformation rather than speculation. Best for trust and safety, security and AI safety people, and founders building detection tools.

Speakers

Lukasz Olejnik · Independent researcher and consultant in cybersecurity and privacy

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Dockrill Room, Department of War Studies, (KIN 628)

King's College London Strand, London, WC2R 2LS

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