The circumstances are very active, and AI has real potential to act as a force multiplier for them. We've already seen this with troll farms and campaigns of s

The circumstances are very active, and AI has real potential to act as a force multiplier for them. We've already seen this with troll farms and campaigns of seeded insanity like the Q Cult. Existing AI tools can make similar efforts cheaper and more effective, and future AI tools are likely to be even more powerful. There's a huge difference between how an experienced technical researcher sees AI and how a politician, war lord, or dark media baron sees it.