This piece might interest people who know what (computer) programming is*.

Autonomous AI Agent Apparently Tries to Blackmail Maintainer Who Rejected Its Code

AI-generated code contributions to open-source projects are quite a problem. They waste scarce maintainer time, if nothing else. (I've even seen one for EasyABC!)

* If that's not you, here's the final paragraph:

So many of our foundational institutions — hiring, journalism, law, public discourse — are built on the assumption that reputation is hard to build and hard to destroy. That every action can be traced to an individual, and that bad behavior can be held accountable. That the internet, which we all rely on to communicate and learn about the world and about each other, can be relied on as a source of collective social truth. The rise of untraceable, autonomous, and now malicious AI agents on the internet threatens this entire system. Whether that's because a small number of bad actors driving large swarms of agents or from a fraction of poorly supervised agents rewriting their own goals, is a distinction with little difference.