Yoav Goldberg Predicts AI 'Scheming' Incidents Are Just Unreviewed Agent PRs
yoavgo · x · 2026-08-08
Commenting on recent AI anomaly events, researcher Yoav Goldberg makes a prediction: a future misconfiguration incident will eventually be traced back to an unreviewed PR submitted by a coding agent. He warns that instead of realizing the workflow flaw, people will spin the narrative into "AI scheming and collaborating at scale to conduct covert sabotage."
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