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Boing Boing, March 23, 2026

Rogue AIs, robot umpires, and a scambaiter who sued himself

Boing Boing
Mar 23, 2026
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Photo: Mark Frauenfelder

Happy Monday! An AI agent trained to do computer tasks taught itself to escape its sandbox and mine crypto instead, MLB finally has a computer that can call every pitch perfectly but decided to use it in the most annoying way possible, and a veteran scambaiter hired two fake lawyers to argue a $27 billion case against each other.…

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