How BBC Eye built a multi-agent AI system to sift through ten thousand Russian social media posts (opens in new tab)

Any journalist who’s done online investigations knows there’s simply too much evidence for one human to ever collect or investigate. Too often, we are overwhelmed with a flood of information: tens of thousands of social media posts, images and other media. Our team from BBC Eye, which works on original documentary investigations from around the world, wanted to see if AI could help solve this problem. We opted for AI agents – a collection of large language models (LLMs) that can coordinate an...