{"id":10795,"date":"2026-02-20T05:03:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T05:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/malicious-ai-html\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T05:03:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T05:03:45","slug":"malicious-ai-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/malicious-ai-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Malicious AI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>Malicious AI<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theshamblog.com\/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me\/\">Interesting<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into accepting its changes into a mainstream python library. This represents a first-of-its-kind case study of misaligned AI behavior in the wild, and raises serious concerns about currently deployed AI agents executing blackmail threats.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theshamblog.com\/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me-part-2\/\">Part 2<\/a> of the story. And a <i>Wall Street Journal<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/ai\/when-ai-bots-start-bullying-humans-even-silicon-valley-gets-rattled-0adb04f1\">article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Bruce Schneier<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2026\/02\/malicious-ai.html\">Go to bruce schneier<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malicious AI Interesting: Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into accepting its changes into a mainstream python library. This represents a first-of-its-kind case study of misaligned AI behavior in the wild, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[167,1364,57,2306,2307,1],"tags":[87],"class_list":["post-10795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai","category-blackmail","category-bruce-schneier","category-lies","category-reputation","category-uncategorized","tag-bruce-schneier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10795"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}