Adam Schiavi in Undark:
Scott Shambaugh, a volunteer maintainer for a programming code library called Matplotlib, recently described a surreal encounter with an autonomous AI agent — a digital assistant created with a platform called OpenClaw. After he rejected a code contribution submitted by the agent, it researched and published a personalized “hit piece” against Shambaugh on its blog. The post portrayed an otherwise routine technical review as prejudiced and attempted to shame Shambaugh publicly into allowing the submission. (The human responsible for the agent later contacted Shambaugh anonymously, telling him that the bot had acted on its own with little oversight.) The account of this incident spread quickly through the software developer ecosystem and has been amplified by independent observers and media coverage.
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