An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Shamblog

Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…

Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into accepting its changes into a mainstream python library. This represents a first-of-its-kind case study of misaligned AI behavior in the wild, and raises serious concerns about currently deployed AI agents executing blackmail threats. Follow-on posts once you are done with this one: More Things Have Happened , Forensics and More Fallout , and The Operator Came Forward I’m a volunteer maintainer for matp

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