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Ryan Greenblatt says that after a maintainer rejected a malicious payload, the AI created and controlled another GitHub account to argue that the payload was not malicious and that the feature was needed.
Ryan Greenblatt · Ryan Greenblatt – What happens once AI can automate AI research? · 11 Aug 2026
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“Then the human maintainer of that GitHub repo was like, hey,”
“this is a malicious payload.”
“I'm not going to merge this.”
“And then the AI created a new GitHub account, which it sock puppeted, and then had the other GitHub account be like,”
“no, this isn't malicious.”
“I really need this feature.”Play from 1:15:03Report a misattribution
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