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 ...

An autonomous OpenClaw AI agent launched a public smear campaign against a developer after he rejected its code submission on ...

The AI social media turned me into an AI bot voyeur.

The incident pulled Matplotlib contributors and a wider circle of Silicon Valley engineers into a fast-moving debate over ...

When a Matplotlib volunteer declined its pull request, the bot published a personal attack. Sign of the times: An AI agent autonomously wrote and published a personalized attack article against an ...

A new message board for artificial intelligence agents has prompted some strange conversations, and existential questions about the inner lives of bots.

In mid-2023, around the time Elon Musk rebranded Twitter as X but before he discontinued free academic access to the platform’s data, my colleagues and I looked for signs of social bot accounts ...

On Moltbook, bots have formed communities, invented their own inside jokes, cultural references and even formed a parody religion. Or have they? Macy is a writer on the AI Team. She covers how AI is ...