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


"I've had an extremely weird few days..." writes commercial space entrepreneur/engineer Scott Shambaugh on LinkedIn. (He's the volunteer maintainer for the Python visualization library Matplotlib, which he describes as "some of the most widely used software in the world" with 130 million downloads...

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