Malicious AI

Source: Schneier on Security

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.

Further Reading

• Part 2 of the story
• Wall Street Journal article: When AI bots start bullying humans, even Silicon Valley gets rattled