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“STOP OPENCLAW.”

That’s the WhatsApp message Meta safety and alignment researcher Summer Yue sent her AI agent while “watching it speedrun deleting [her] inbox.” Despite the various reasons not to connect OpenClaw to your actual data, apparently, she felt confident based on its results with her toy inbox and moved it to her actual Gmail.

A Meta AI security researcher said an OpenClaw agent ran amok on her inbox

The viral X post from an AI security researcher reads like satire. But it's really a word of warning about what can go wrong when handing tasks to an AI agent.