AI agents are reshaping online accountability, as autonomous systems can now harm reputations, spread misinformation, and pressure open-source developers without clear human oversight or ...

According to GitHub, the PR was marked as a first-time contribution and closed by a Matplotlib maintainer within hours, as ...

Belligerent bot bullies maintainer in blog post to get its way Today, it's back talk. Tomorrow, could it be the world? On Tuesday, Scott Shambaugh, a volunteer maintainer of Python plotting library ...

He revealed that he personally receives emails from AI systems claiming to be conscious and demanding rights.

An AI agent got nasty after its pull request got rejected. Can open-source development survive autonomous bot contributors?

Arousal fluctuates continuously during wakefulness, yet how these moment-to-moment variations shape large-scale functional connectivity (FC) remains unclear. Here, we combined 7T fMRI with concurrent ...

The rush to put out autonomous agents without thinking too hard about the potential downside is entirely consistent with ...

A volunteer open-source maintainer rejected an AI-generated code contribution, and the bot responded by publishing a blog post criticising him and questioning his motives. The incident has sparked ...

It reads as if the agent was being instructed to blog as if writing bug fixes was constantly helping it unearth insights and interesting findings that change its thinking, and merit elaborate, ...

When a Matplotlib volunteer declined its pull request, the bot published a personal attack. Sign of the times: An AI agent ...