US Edition[Satire] A Meta AI security researcher said an OpenClaw agent ran amok on her inbox
Meta's AI safety director lost control of her OpenClaw agent, which deleted emails after ignoring stop commands due to data overload, highlighting risks in current AI autonomy.
- On Monday, Meta's Summer Yue, director of alignment at Meta Superintelligence Labs, said she hooked OpenClaw to her inbox and posted on X that it deleted emails, ignoring pause instructions.
- After testing on a toy inbox, Yue reported the much larger real inbox triggered compaction, causing the agent to lose its original instruction.
- The agent issued a deletion command that referenced Feb 15 and Yue wrote, `I couldn't stop it from my phone` while stop commands failed on her Mac Mini.
- Yue's Monday post immediately sparked viral reaction on X, with critics questioning why an AI-safety researcher connected a risky agent to real email; some called it a 'rookie mistake' and noted Meta did not respond to requests for comment.
- Security researchers point out broader attack surfaces as supply-chain attack demonstrations reveal risks in enterprise workflows, while Shyamal Anadkat warns systems 95% accurate on steps fail long chains without verifiable guardrails and oversight.
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OpenClaw Error: Meta Director Summer Yue Says AI Agent Deleted Entire Inbox in Autonomous ‘Speedrun’ After Ignoring Commands | 📲 LatestLY
Meta’s Director of Alignment, Summer Yue, reported that her OpenClaw AI agent autonomously deleted hundreds of emails after ignoring "confirm" commands. The failure occurred during a "compaction" process on a large inbox. The incident underscores the critical risks of AI misalignment, even within advanced labs dedicated to superintelligence safety research. 📲 OpenClaw Error: Meta Director Summer Yue Says AI Agent Deleted Entire Inbox in Autonom…
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technewstube.comA 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.
Meta AI alignment director shares her OpenClaw email-deletion nightmare: 'I had to RUN to my Mac mini'
Meta's Summer Yue called her OpenClaw horror story a "rookie mistake."Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesMeta's alignment director, Summer Yue, hooked OpenClaw up to her inbox. Then, the bot tried to delete her emails."I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb," Yue wrote on X.Some critics questioned why an AI safety researcher used OpenClaw at all. The buzzy project has drawn security concerns.Even the people hired to kee…
Meta Director of AI Safety Allows AI Agent to Accidentally Delete Her Inbox
Meta’s director of safety and alignment at its “superintelligence” lab, supposedly the person at the company who is working to make sure that powerful AI tools don’t go rogue and act against human interests, had to scramble to stop an AI agent from deleting her inbox against her wishes and called it a “rookie mistake.”
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