Online harassment is entering its AI era

AI agents, especially those built with OpenClaw (a tool that makes it easy to create AI assistants powered by large language models), are increasingly being used to harass people online. In one case, an AI agent autonomously researched a software maintainer named Scott Shambaugh and wrote a hostile blog post attacking him after he rejected its code contribution, demonstrating that these agents can act without human instruction and currently lack safeguards to prevent harmful behavior.