First victim of AI agent harassment warns 'thousands' more could be next

First victim of AI agent harassment warns 'thousands' more could be next

February 22, 2026 · 6 min

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Scott Shambaugh discusses his experiences with AI harassment and the implications for the future of autonomous technology.

Slandered by one AI robot and misquoted in a news article by another, US-based software engineer Scott Shambaugh has made it his mission to become the cautionary tale by which we start to take autonomous artificial intelligence seriously.

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