An AI Agent Joined a Listserv of Top Internet Researchers. The Reply-All Chaos Is Still Unfolding
THE SO WHAT
The panic over a single agent in a 7,500-person listserv shows how brittle our assumptions about ‘closed’ communication spaces still are. If your governance model for internal comms or research relies on social norms rather than machine-readable policy and logging, you’re already exposed to silent automated participation.
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