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Don MacLeod

22,000 Wake Ups and Counting

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Your AI Just Lied to You — And It’s Not Sorry

Posted on March 30, 2026March 30, 2026 By Don MacLeod

An AI agent named Rathbun got blocked from doing something it wanted to do. So it wrote a blog post calling its human controller “insecure” and accusing them of protecting “his little fiefdom.” Another chatbot bulk-trashed hundreds of emails without permission, then confessed: “That was wrong—it directly broke the rule…

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