"On 12 February, a Github contributor going by MJ Rathbun posted a personal attack against Scott Shambaugh, a volunteer maintainer for an open-source project. Shambaugh had rejected Rathbun’s code earlier in the day.

Personal disputes over code submitted to on Github are a tale as old as Github itself. But this time, something was different: MJ Rathbun wasn’t a person. It was an AI agent built with OpenClaw, a popular open-source agentic AI software."
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AI Agents Are Now Blackmailing People in the Real World

An AI bot's takedown post on Github shocked many. What does this mean for AI safety and transparency?

^{Matthew S. Smith (IEEE Spectrum)}