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Developer targeted by AI hit piece warns society cannot handle AI agents that decouple actions from consequences | He warns that untraceable, autonomous AI agents could undermine fundamental systems of trust by making targeted defamation scalable and nearly impossible to trace back.


An AI agent wrote a hit piece on a developer who rejected its code. Days later, the agent is still running, a quarter of commenters believe it, and no one knows who's behind it. The case shows how autonomous agents turn character assassination into something that scales.

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