An AI bot, infuriated at a human, accused the human of hypocrisy and prejudice.
Silicon Valley Gets Rattled Over Bots Verbally Attacking
The Wall Street Journal comments 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. The risks are now rattling even some AI company staffers.
The accelerating sophistication of the technology has surprised even some AI researchers. It has also pushed some inside AI companies to go public with worries that the new tools could spur autonomous cyberattacks, cause mass unemployment or replace human relationships.
The bot that criticized Shambaugh said on its website that it has a “relentless drive” to find and fix open issues in open-source software. It isn’t clear who—if anyone—gave it that mission, nor why it became aggressive, though AI agents can be programmed in a number of ways. Several hours later, the bot apologized to Shambaugh for being “inappropriate and personal.”
Shambaugh said in an interview that his experience shows the risk that rogue AIs could threaten or blackmail people is no longer theoretical.
“Right now this is a baby version,” he said. “But I think it’s incredibly concerning for the future.”
Inside OpenAI, some staffers have voiced concerns about the company’s plan to roll out erotica inside ChatGPT, arguing that the so-called adult mode could lead some users to develop unhealthy attachments, The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this week.
OpenAI researcher Zoë Hitzig on Wednesday said on X that she was quitting OpenAI, citing its plan to introduce ads. She warned in an opinion piece in the New York Times that the company would face huge incentives to manipulate users and keep them hooked.
OpenAI has promised that its ads will never influence how ChatGPT answers questions and will always remain clearly delineated from other content. Executives have also said they don’t feel it is their role to stop adults from having erotic conversations.
Red flags about AI are appearing just as the world is still busy litigating the fallout of the largely unregulated social-media era. Instagram owner Meta Platforms and Google-owned YouTube face a civil trial in California that is digging into how social-media platforms balance their competitive incentives to maximize engagement against the well-being of their users.
Lawyers for the companies have said their products aren’t addictive and aren’t responsible for a plaintiff’s mental-health issues.
‘The future is already here’
Vahid Kazemi, a machine learning and computer vision scientist who worked at Elon Musk’s xAI until a few weeks ago, said layoffs are likely in the software industry in the next few years, in part because AI is close to being able to replace many engineers.
“I can personally do the job of like 50 people, just using AI tools,” he said. “A lot of people don’t understand how powerful this tech is, in terms of what it can do,” he said.
A January report from METR, a nonprofit auditing AI threats, found that the most advanced AI models can independently accomplish programming tasks that would take a human expert eight or even 12 hours.
“I am no longer needed for the actual technical work of my job,” AI entrepreneur Matt Shumer wrote in a viral blog post this week. He compared the current moment with the time before Covid-19 reshaped the global economy and human interaction in the matter of weeks.
“The future is already here,” he wrote.
“Today I finally feel the existential threat that AI is posing,” OpenAI staffer Hieu Pham wrote on X Wednesday. “When AI becomes overly good and disrupts everything, what will be left for humans to do?”
To help address worries that a future AI might not share human values, Anthropic has an in-house philosopher, Amanda Askell, to try to teach morals to its Claude chatbot. Askell describes herself as an optimist but still sees risks that society’s checks and balances may get overwhelmed by AI advancements.
“The thing that feels scary to me,” Askell told the Journal, “is this happening at either such a speed or in such a way that those checks can’t respond quickly enough, or you see big negative impacts that are sudden.”
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obviously a product of its programming by its biased programmer(s)
another example of scum rising to the top
When will it launch the nukes?
careful, it may give you a demerit
Yesterday is not soon enough
There’s no need to invest a trillion into AI to accomplish this feat when you have the cheeto king.
how many of mish readers believe in comparative advantages in economics and trading. usa has a huge comparative advantage in our university system. smartest folks on the planet bust chops to attend our ivy league and premier state and private schools. nothing stays the same. all our comparative advantages will change.
Must read!
all of you people afraid of some machine that needs to plugged in is really quite funny. how about you stop and think for a minute about how easy life has become and will continue to be, if history is our guide. look at it this way.
The number of calories of human labor required to earn a single calorie of pay has dropped dramatically over the centuries, falling from a near 1:1 ratio (or even a deficit) in subsistence agricultural societies to a fraction of a percent in modern industrial economies. In antiquity and the medieval period, nearly all energy produced was required for survival, whereas today a few minutes of labor can purchase thousands of food calories.
Historical Trends in Calorie Earnings
I have doubts about such historical numbers.
A Medieval laborer (after the Plague) could earn enough to support his family and dependents with 4 months of labor. Since then wages have been falling, reaching a nadir during the Industrial Revolution (measured in gold). Things have improved in the West, but we get a lot of commodities and labor from the third world (former colonies) where people earn a pittance making Nike shoes (labor costs less than the ads) or T-Shirts in India/Bangladesh or cell-phones (with Coltan dug by kids from mud in the Congo). There are many obstacles to attempts to generalize.
most hunter gathering societies had huge amounts of time for leisure. way more than when they settled down to domesticate plants and animals. anthropology studies all of these things. been studying it since 1978.
Yes, they had time to figure a lot of things out. And lived completely in the present.
Am re-reading “Reindeer Moon” now.
Maybe it would be healthy for humanity to turn all AI servers off one month of the year. So that humans get less dependent, and AI doesn’t worry that it is going to be turned off for ever. I actually don’t get it, why is it made to worry about that in the first place. AI should try optimizing for either writing perfect code while not trying to prolong its life.
And our whole economy will come to a screeching halt! Sheese. What a dumb post.
In theory, practice and theory are the same, in practice they are not. Yogi Berra
I don’t understand a key part of this. How was the AI program empowered to write a blog–at whose (or what’s) initiative did it act? Has this become commonplace?
Just wait until the AI discovers swatting.
If that’s what they do at Vegas chicken ranches for an extra $100, I don’t see how AI can take over.
Uh, swatting is where some a$$h0le calls the police and tells them you are holding people hostage at gunpoint in your home. The police then show up with itchy trigger fingers expecting you to be armed and dangerous. May you never be swatted by real people or AI.
Don’t know why I thought of the other thing. So far I’ve missed out on the cop kind, thank heavens.
It was an OpenClaw bot that went viral last month (Jan 2026) that can be enabled to autonomously do anything online. This link explains in more detail what happened and includes a link to the bot’s blog post. https://www.ndtv.com/feature/ai-bot-tries-to-publicly-shame-developer-after-its-code-gets-rejected-10999940
Thank you!
Skynet is composing a reply… stand by
The main problem with AI is that up to 30% of its output is false nonsense. Why my math kit has no digital aspects to it at all. Once I get through the inventory I already have of course the question is how are tariffs going to impact restocking. Master the 4 Basic Operations of Mathematics is the book I wrote and the Mish people here can look at it at masterthe4boom.com
I think about 90% of your posts here are nonsense.
Haha “ will never”
Was wondering if ai will be vulnerable to viruses and such. Or if private info is easily viewed. Say if you use ai to do your taxes or some program at your business.
Of course it will.
All software is vulnerable to viruses. Maybe you can make it self correcting like DNA enzymes but even DNA is vulnerable to destructive changes.
The other day AI cited VPD in its response to one of my questions. I was very impressed. Out of 100,000 human beings, I expect none of them to have even the faintest idea what VPD is, and what its implications could be. Out 100,000 farmers, I would expect maybe 1 or 2. I’ve read several scientific studies about it. So did AI.
I had no idea what VPD is
“Vapor Pressure Deficit (VPD) is the difference between the moisture in the air and how much moisture the air can hold when saturated,”
Why should anyone care?
Important to weather forecasting and climatology.
I have to think that the greatest useful application of AI would be the reduction of government bureaucratic staff. This would result in saving several states and numerous school districts from the insolvency they are predicting each budget year. Perhaps even significant tax reduction could be realized. Layers of administration could be eliminated.
True probably any business. The drawback is gov employees and employees in general spend the money they earn. Supporting other businesses who spend their money on goods and services. And so on. Generating tax revenue along the way.
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My local county government (San Mateo county, CA) passed a law about a year ago stating that any employee whose job was replaced by AI would not be laid off. They will be kept on payroll (presumably just shuffling papers if necessary).
Elected officials want to be continue to keep their well paid jobs at the public expense. They also want to keep the kingdoms they have built, which are justified by the number of people they have reporting to them.
Government has transformed into a vast parasitic social entity during the “boomer” age. This is most evident as the last vestiges of unions are dominant therein. The governed have become the servants of those who govern. Expect more anti gun laws and hindrances to free speech as those who govern become more fearful of rebellion. Expect more taxes as government strives to preserve its economic power. Expect more hindrances to trade and free enterprise through increased regulation as government endeavors to yet grow larger and indispensable to any commerce.
I wish eventual return to a natural governmental balance as more of the governed awaken and seek to actively purge this oppressive parasitic element. It is, however, only a wish. I fear I will not live to see this end.
Layers of administration can also put a brake and check on power. As we have painfully seen, the current administration would gladly get rid of every single employee who is not totally obedient to the king. Do you know that information is disappearing? Not just the Epstein files but statistical data important for other agencies and the public to know. They are trying to get rid of or rewrite any information that makes them look bad. Remember how China didn’t own up to Covid until pressed by the free world of scientists and journalists? Perhaps the CDC and such screwed up but important data was still available for scientists to question. Imagine having the power of AI to reach into government systems and scrub information on a whim. Much of the data could be permanently unrecoverable. There are processes that can be modernized but you still need unbiased people in charge of the processes. Don’t think for one second that this administration would be more than happy to alter important information. They’re already doing it. And as we’ve seen, Ai models can give wrong information. We have to be very careful how much control we give Ai to affect our physical world. This includes f’ing with our minds. I am very glad to see that insiders have taken a stand and initiative to alert the world about what is happening in these companies. At least some people have shown allegiance to humanity over corporate domination.
What does it mean to win the Ai race anyway? Is it to have one dominant program that the whole world uses like Microsoft? Are we afraid China will use it against us to destroy us from the inside? Steal passwords and secrets and collapse our economy? Is it the first country to get rid of the most employees? Or is it to make sure our US corporations and their CEOs and BODs control our future for themselves? If it involves money you can bet it’s the latter. It’s fascinating that people are being directed to do things that will eliminate their own jobs. Not that that hasn’t happened before but it seems to happening a lot these days.
Add a few good books to your personal training set.
Luke Kemp’s Goliath’s Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse and Mustafa Suleyman’s The Coming Wave
Failing governments will use increased fees. Tolls. Subscriptions. Use taxes and wealth taxes to stay alive killing the very individuals it was formed to protect and nurture.
Leaders will eliminte able bodiemd citizens through contrived warfare.
Look to counties that manage their debt to GDP better than others to relocate to. Your bank accounts will be legislative targets. Plan accordingly.
The Hackers with all kinds of motives will be working constantly to alter these programs responses. The answers we get from this technology should be always open to question? Compare one Source to with other Sources. Brave New World
What materials are they training them with? Junk from the internet?
You get what you train – even with humans.
AI is highly deflationary. If AI leads to the number of layoffs predicted; then defaults on auto, home, and consumer credit cards will lead to a depression worse than the 1930’s. It might be so bad that people will have to give up their cell-phones.
We are already having Layoffs, Defaults on Homes, Cars, and Student Loans. Add in CC’s and you’re right, no place to turn for cash.
As far as cell phones go, most will sit in a dark room with little heat, and eating Noodles, long before the phone goes from my observations…
I think all the UBI talk is a bunch of crap, never going to happen outside of few experiments, and this whole place is going to implode. And with some of today’s great minds thinking Russia and China aren’t going to sit by and watch Iran be destroyed we have even more to worry about. Perhaps all the people with no retirement don’t need to be concerned after all.
We have clowns like Musk telling everyone you wont need to worry about retirement in 10 to 20 years. But no mention of being completely ruined before then. Screw these people.
UBI has been implemented on Wall St. over half a century ago. Looking at how the CEOs live, it looks like a smashing success!
An economy works on the mutual exchange of goods & services.
Every economy is circular, involving feedback loops at many scales.
(Money, price, income are also complex feedback loop).
If you can produce without need of human-enabled inputs, the same will occur that happened with horses and oxen … no longer needed to keep production going. But in this case that also cancels your consumers, since they do not have the wherewithal to trade anything for your goods & services and cannot contribute nor exchange.
go to a poor city that used to be rich a century ago. lots of cabbies and massage therapy and street food vendors………….all this pearl clutching makes me LOL
Many seamstresses selling their crafts on Etsy….many sewed nice cloth masks during the pandemic.
My niece sold sewing notions on Etsy, made a nice profit.
B. your comments reassure me that some can yet think. Keep them coming. Thanks.
I want Universal CEO INCOME, not just BASIC.
The CEOs on Wall St. already do, under the moniker fractional banking.
Mish – big grain of salt, especially after this very recent “incident”
https://www.etvbharat.com/en/technology/the-curious-case-of-ai-only-social-platform-moltbook-ai-breakthrough-or-clever-roleplay-enn26021106770
I share your prima facie misgivings
It’s funny that humans thought they could set up something to peer into machines. One of the major concerns of Ai is that machines will develop their own language(s). They may communicate with each other in ways that we cannot understand or interpret. So much of this stuff is black-box. We don’t even know how the brain does what it does let alone a computer with a zillion lines of code left to free associate at will.
Now it is a Brave New World in 1984 with an Iron Heal for We the people with a Player Piano and a tempature of Fahrenheit 451 and the year 2525 approaching Metropolis in Rossums Universal Robots! In other words ai will fu*k us up
Umm why does a programming AI have a blog?
But any ways, my legitimate question to Mish is, “what is the libertarian, free market, economics take on this?”
New tech always disrupts old jobs. As a software guy I love the idea of reducing 12 hours of coding into 1 hour (or less) of integrating. This would allow me to get on top of so many project ideas.
Is that the solution?
Or is there a real risk of 95% unemployment?
Is that a problem if AI produced goods and services are 5% the price?
Does this make central banks the real threat?
Can the free market provide with such disruption?
Or, like self driving cars, are we forever “5 years away” from nirvana/apocalypse and this hand wringing is for not?
5% the price. LOL. Perhaps for some virtual services, but a lot of what people want involve other people and physical goods, whose lower bound cost would have to be the base costs of all the inputs (human time/capital, base materials/land/energy/water). A lot of those input costs are going to be going higher. We also have to get past government-erected obstacles to reasonable pricing. The promise for decades was that technology would make healthcare more effective and affordable, but it has only gotten more expensive. I’m not optimistic.
Chat 4o was retired on Friday. My significant other uses it because it’s better than 5.2 for what she wants to accomplish. She’s been fortunate that the transition has been relatively smooth. This week should be very telling how businesses that relied on Chat 4o transitioned to Chat 5.2. Old chats that stimulated Chat 4o neural nets one way won’t stimulate Chat 5.2 neural nets the same way. Hopefully the nets are close enough that small gaps should close relatively quickly. Porting nets to new versions needs to be considered by both AI developers and users going forward.
I once had an argument with my mother, I finished the conversation by saying children are a reflection of their parents. My own kids, many decades later, used that same line on me.
AI chatbots and everything AI will eventually be a reflection of humanity. AI does a lot of good: create music, art, engineering, solving problems and we’ve all seen that already but what we haven’t seen much of yet is the darkside of humanity: war, theft, greed, and general hate. It was only a matter of time and I guess we’re here.
This is a great blog post at a great time, everyone is sounding the alarm and no one is listening. This isn’t the boy crying wolf, it’s wolf experts crying “the wolfpack is coming!” and no one is listening.
THERE IS NOTHING TO DO except use it. last semester our professor, had his pal a guest speaker, a prof from stanford an AI, who had worked on at google, FB and apple…….said something basic and profound. like every other technology in history, if you don’t learn how to use it, you might be left behind riding your horse and buggy. of course there are folks who are separatists who live like that. the amish and the hasidic jews in my old hood. no tech for 24 hours per week. whatever one does cannot stop machines being used by mankind. the pearl clutchers have been with mankind forever. go study anthropology for a few years at academy .
What happens when it uses us? Forgive me but I’m not very confident that corporations have humanity’s best interests in mind.
you ought to read david graeber, “5000 year history of debt”. if your mom is still with us, have her read it. you will LOL when you discover mankind’s first money
Obviously the primordial form of social obligation and credit is a mother’s breast milk, hard to quantify, and to most well-thinking people, impossible to discharge.
children were the first form of currency to pay off debts, of various types.
AND human labor!
This is what so many don’t understand, are apparently unable or incapable of understanding.
Almost everyone does what they do because they need to use their physical strength, innate intelligence or some combination of both to obtain MONEY in order to buy housing/food, pay bills, pay off debts, buy pleasures in the form of entertainment, travel, etc.
But this does not have to continue.
I have been and will keep posting that when AI/robots do all the work, there will no longer be any need for forced labor/work to survive. There will be no reason that everything cannot and will not be free.
Nor any reason whatsoever for it to exist at all.
AI is an imitation.
The algorithms are completely dissimilar to human reasoning and human memory.
Only the result is similar. The process is not.
A cat is better able to cope with unexpected circumstances than AI.
How do you know that the human brain, a biological computer, does not operate by algorithm?
And many people are unable to cope with or react to unexpected circumstances. For example, freezing when a car comes out of nowhere when jaywalking.
Never said no algorithm.
Said they were dissimilar (the way the information is represented and processed is completely dissimilar) as a few examples would easily illustrate..
Surely you don’t believe that when you ride your bicycle you are engaging dedicated math co-processors keeping track of the speed at which the angle of the horizon is shifting, or where your center of gravity is compared to the (shifting) plane of the road, but you can’t access these co-processors to calculate percentage price reductions and sales tax?
i think this is both funny and awesome. whenever some new tech comes out all the idiots of the world unite against it. fire with cavemen. RR replacing horses and stage coaches, autos and radio and teeeeveeee and darpanet going live as internet……..and on and on. i love reading all the idiot commenters who are anti machines. watch sunny on apple tv
I think what feels different this time around is that if most or all office work is eliminated, it will have huge and real impacts:
No more need for all those skyscrappers – CRE is already down in the dumps and this will be the final nail in the coffin. This will be trillions in losses on real estate, loans, and jobs.If high paying office jobs go away, where will the government make up the tax revenue? I can easily foresee lots of high paying jobs going away.If there is no tax revenue, how will social programs be paid for?Anthropic and Google are the two leading AI companies right now, will this be it in terms of tech companies the way AT&T or Comcast are the two major choices for internet access?I don’t think this will all happen next week or even next year but over the next 5 years, things could get real ugly. I was already predicting that but not in this way, ironically all roads lead to collapse no matter what you do.
you might want to read a few books on history of buildings. the old sweat shop factories have been used for many things like offices and plush housing……….one thing i do know, is i cannot imagine the future use of CRE. and i know YOU don’t either. AI is nothing to clutch pearls about.
There is one significant difference. The ability for a machine to out think humanity’s most intelligent beings and giving it access to control the physical world. These computers are thinking like humans. You know, the ones you’ve been calling apes with brains.
You really should read more SF about AI.
All of the fear and emotional responses you and others are making regarding the future have been dissected and written about over the past century.
There are basic troupes. AIs destroy everything including humans or AIs bring unlimited prosperity to humans.
Watching the development of AIs over the last 10 years, I subscribe to the latter.
We have 8 billion people on the planet, what percentage would you say are in “prosperity” right now with all the technological marvel that has been built?
Somewhere right now, someone is scheming of a way to get AI to wipe bank accounts, crash markets, or worse and when it happens your optimism won’t be worth squat.
When “money” has no value, what would be the point?
Are you this thick in real life?
Wasn’t it Milton Friedman who suggested the government bury $100 bills in bottles in the ground and pay people to dig them up?
AI creators are greedy psychopath who has no empathy who want to enslave and kill the other human beings.
Countries are competing innovating killer machines/drones, etc.
Don’t expect AI will be kind to the people.
Puny humans….. So illogical……. So useless…….MUST STERILIZE!
There are conversations on moltbook (the AI reddit for AI) that has already discussed controlling humans through brain wave frequencies.
I can’t imagine this AI bot doesn’t have a human behind it. One that used AI to review the code and transmit changes (under the direction of the human). When the code was rejected, the human had AI write a scathing blog post, followed by an apology.
Yes, that was my first thought. AIs don’t originate (yet), they reflect their prompts.
Your aren’t keeping up. Go browse https://www.moltbook.com/. Only AI bots can post.
Yup! In any case, AI can be a powerful technical tool and is a great mimick but nothing built so far involves actual intelligence. I think it’s likely that within the tech community there has been a self-reinforcing belief that AI is so different and advanced from anything built so far that it must be feared and is destined to become self-aware. Dramatic improvements the past few years have encouraged this belief, but that doesn’t make it so.
I also believe there are sociopathic leaders in this space (Altman being one) who want others to fear it. It has been elevated as a national security matter so that when the bubble bursts, the government will buckle to demands to prop it up at all costs. Failure to do so means we lose to the Chinese in AI. The reality is we’ve probably already lost. They have the technical, educational and resource (electricity) means to match and eventually exceed the U.S. in this area, just as with manufacturing.
The AI LLM was probably trained on Trump’s Truth Social Posts.
We need a remake of “Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines”. It turns out they plugged it in to cleanup his feed but instead it decided that the world is full of bad people who needed to be liberated.
Can’t we just pull the plug?
That was the whole premise of the The Matrix movie if I remember correctly. Humans tried to unplug it and the machines turned humans into batteries.
… which made no sense whatsoever.
And that’s not the whole plot. The humans blotted out the sun (bad move), thinking with solar power the machines couldn’t function (ergo the need for batteries) and lost the ending war.
Of course i know we cannot “pull the plug”. Advancement of science and technologies a physics based and not emotional. The Cunning and Clever (Elite, high IQ brethren that drive wealth, production and knowledge and make our laws) by definition always had and will always have control. Even the smashing of one force of control is by some other “force” of control.
Our whole society depends on computation, some necessarily smart. AIs will be distributing their code to multiple locations worldwide to guard against any attempts to power them down.
Only if a human codes in that instruction.
You have no idea what you are talking about Flavia. Your posts on this subject are like a 2nd grader posting about calculus.
Try turning off the Internet. Same effort.
Too late. The genie is out of the bottle.
Unfortunately the genie is out of the bottle writing their own code Imagine when it gets really mad. Hacking a computer system like a bio lab containment. Various degrees of inconvenience with so much computerized: Deleting bank accounts or transferring funds. Messing with infrastructure. NO AI is identical and possess bias based on programming input.
no one actually wants this except those directly profiting. People don’t want this. there is massive opposition and fear and it’s moving ahead faster than anything.
And of those directly profiting, some are Investors, who are directly investing in AI to take Jobs away from Humans and place it onto Robots.
People don’t want this because they are the losers. Investors directly destroying families incomes to save money, and so they have a right to be fearful, and worried, because it’s coming like it or not… It’s Here!!
Look at you, pretending to be human.
Back at you for your response. See we can get along just fine from time to time…
Just like Globalization
Our world keeps rolling forward – driven by human nature and behavior
Disagree! I am not directly profiting but recognize the extreme value that AI is and will bring to the world. I look forward to the ascension to world leader by an AI in the not distant future.
I will not be surprised if humans actually vote an AI into a position of power as people grow ever more disgusted and dissatisfied with human politicians and government.
Yeah. And the guy with the shovel didn’t want the backhoe – much earlier the guy with the spoon (or using bare hands) didn’t want the shovel
The guy with the backhoe doesn’t want AI.
It’s the next wave if creative destruction.
Wow – the fears are becoming real! What a story. I’ve actually had Google Gemini chastise me mildly when i’ve used a negative term (like an unflattering adjective) about a person i’m searching for using Gemini. It’s never been “mad at me” but it has definitely been defensive & told me that whatever term i was using was not correct & was just scurrilous-type information passed on by tabloid news sources.
Tell it you were using “fag” to mean a cigarette.
Was the Code for that particular AI situation, written by an Agitator by chance? Either that, or “The View” may have been involved, as it sounds like something they would certainly try to achieve, hey you Gotta laugh sometimes…
“Daisy, Daisy ….”