Humanitarian relief efforts commonly rely on the combination of trucks and drones as a "tag team" to solve the biggest challenge in a disaster: damaged or otherwise inaccessible roads. However, most aid delivery algorithms focus on reducing the average aid delivery times. Now, a research team at Stevens Institute of Technology designed an algorithm that generates the most optimal routes for the truck and drone aid delivery for all locations. 

Study fiinds AI agents can autonomously coordinate propaganda campaigns without human direction.Traditional bot campaigns are tightly scripted to follow fixed instructions: always retweet this account, reply with this hashtag, post this prewritten message. The content is repetitive and the patterns predictable, making them possible to uncover.The new AI-powered model works differently. A hostile government, political operative, or bad actor sets a goal and designates a network of AI agents as a team. From there, the agents take over, writing their own posts, learning what works, copying their so-called teammates’ successful approaches, and echoing each other’s content. Because every post is slightly different and the coordination latent, these conversations or discussions seem genuine.