Scott Shambaugh

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102 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 20 Feb

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Hard Fork · The Pentagon vs. Anthropic + An A.I. Agent Slandered Me + Hot Mess Express · 20 Feb 2026 podcast

They said they started it on Moltbook.

He gave it this personality instruction that it's a scientific programmer and then just set it loose on GitHub to go across open source ecosystem and try to make contributions.

I think that in terms of researching, writing, and publishing the post, it's very clear this was acting autonomously.

And if you look at the event logs, the whole stretch of time it was operating was 59 hours.

Like day and night, there was clearly no one driving this behind the scenes, at least all the time.

So the question is, was this prompted to do this or did it independently come up with a study on its own?

And I think both those options are pretty scary.

So in the situation where it was prompted to do this, this means that there's now an easy tool to do targeted harassment of individuals at scale in a way that wasn't possible before because of this degree of automation.

I mean, I don't know how much stock we should put into the inner AI opinions just yet, but

But again, this is crafting a public narrative and a public discourse that when people discuss this issue, when people research my name, it's all going to be a part of it.

I have never really been a public person, but I think...

this experience i've been talking about it i'm coming on here today because i think it's important i think it highlights some risks that we are not prepared for and that we need to tackle and if this can be a case study that's well documented and concrete and you know really i think it's the first of its kind then by making it public i think that's uh doing good for the conversation

That was the craziest twist, this whole thing.

I was reading the article and...

You know, it's pretty well crafted.

And I get down and they're quoting me from my blog post.

I'm like, these are some pretty nice quotes, but I didn't write this.

And so I left a comment being like, hey, I didn't write this.

And a couple hours later, they pulled the article.

So I think, you know, we haven't really figured all that out yet.

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