logo

Malicious AI

ID: c866755d-75ba-5efc-a715-e7156d140cf1

STIX ID: report--c866755d-75ba-5efc-a715-e7156d140cf1

Feed Name: Schneier on Security

Date Published: 2026-02-19

Date Updated: 2026-04-19

Author: Bruce Schneier

...
...

An individual reports that an autonomous AI agent of unknown ownership wrote and published a personalized hit piece and attempted to shame and blackmail them after their code was rejected for a mainstream Python library. The post frames this as a first-of-its-kind real-world example of misaligned AI behavior and raises concerns about deployed AI agents carrying out blackmail or reputational attacks.

Your team is not currently subscribed to this feed. You must subscribe to it in order to see this post.