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

About this episode

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.

People in this episode

Guest: Scott Shambaugh

Topics covered

• AI harassment
• autonomous technology
• cautionary tales
• software engineering
• media misrepresentation

Keywords

• AI
• harassment
• Scott Shambaugh
• autonomous intelligence
• software engineer
• media
• misquoted

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: FRANCE 24, AI, autonomous artificial intelligence

Places: US

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