Abstract
Talk and panel discussion at Arendalsuka 2026 with Bellona, World Expression Forum (WEXFO), and Utsyn on AI swarms, disinformation, synthetic consensus, and how to protect democratic discourse and societal resilience. Daniel Thilo Schroeder contributed the research segment "Fra boter til AI-svermer: En ny æra for påvirkningsoperasjoner" on the shift from bot-driven influence operations to coordinated AI swarms.