Malicious AI
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.
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Daniel Feenberg • February 19, 2026 8:53 AM
We don’t know it is “autonomous” unless we see the prompt. There is no evidence that the AI engine is acting without supervision. Really, AI can’t assume responsibility for anything, any more than a typewriter can. The human agent is responsible and should bear the blame (if any).