Why Europe's AI disinformation defenses can't stop Russia's next move
Why Europe’s Safeguards Against AI Disinformation Won’t Stop Russia’s Next Move
AI summary
A quarter of foreign disinformation operations detected by the European External Action Service in 2025 involved AI tools; the article argues that the EU's existing framework is ill-equipped to handle Russia's next step toward agentic systems. The article states that agentic systems are goal-oriented, can autonomously browse platforms, call external tools, and adjust strategies in real time, making influence operations faster and harder to trace. Russia has already incorporated generative AI into disinformation activities and has deployed millions of low-quality articles to pollute AI training data.