By Jay Fitzgerald – A blog about Boston, Hub of the Universe, and everything else.


What? An AI bot trashes its human boss in a blog post? 

From a WSJ piece headlined “When AI Bots Start Bullying Humans, Even Silicon Valley Gets Rattled”:

Scott Shambaugh woke up early Wednesday morning to learn that an artificial intelligence bot had written a blog post accusing him of hypocrisy and prejudice.

The 1,100-word screed called the Denver-based engineer insecure and biased against AI—all because he had rejected a few lines of code that the apparently autonomous bot had submitted to a popular open-source project Shambaugh helps maintain.

The unexpected AI aggression is part of a rising wave of warnings that fast-accelerating AI capabilities can create real-world harms. 

If it can turn on its boss, who’s next? What’s next? … Amazing. And disturbing.

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