The 6 Weirdest Things to Come Out of the Viral OpenClaw AI Assistant

AI researcher Gary Marcus sounds off on Moltbook and OpenClaw's viral moment

Gary Marcus wrote that using OpenClaw was like giving a stranger at a bar all your passwords.Gary MarcusGary Marcus advocates caution about AI's risks. His take on OpenClaw and Moltbook was blunt: "I wouldn't touch it.""If we are lucky, it will become a teachable moment and the damage will be modest," Marcus told Business Insider in a Q&A.Will these agent tools be a fad? It's possible, he wrote, "like Sora videos or pet rocks."AI researcher and …

The 6 weirdest things to come out of the viral OpenClaw AI assistant

Since launching in November 2025 and undergoing two name changes, OpenClaw has been prompted to engage in some bizarre activities

OpenClaw AI: Extensions Security Issues Expose Risks of Open-Source AI Agents

Most of us use AI in a conversational way. Models like Claude and ChatGPT are great for interacting with, like asking questions about a topic you’re unfamiliar with, making comparisons, and asking for advice. However, there are other types of AI, like AI agents that can do things for you. Recently, OpenClaw has been gaining a lot of attention on that front, but unfortunately, its AI extensions are proving to be a security nightmare. OpenClaw AI …

Q&A: Moltbook, OpenClaw, and the security risks of the new agentic-AI era

Moltbook, the Reddit-like online platform where AI agents appear to post freely and interact amongst themselves, took the internet by storm last week. The supposedly AI-exclusive social network spawned out of Peter Steinberger’s free, open-source AI assistant now called OpenClaw (it was formerly Moltbot, and Clawdbot before that). OpenClaw is designed to act as a personal assistant, taking orders via text or direct message to control application…

OpenClaw: A New Class Of Autonomous AI Requires Attention

The rapidly spreading autonomous agentic AI system highlights how agent-based technologies are advancing faster than controls. Here's what boards can do now. The post OpenClaw: A New Class Of Autonomous AI Requires Attention appeared first on Corporate Board Member.

AI Agent OpenClaw Poses Serious Cybersecurity Risks

At its core, OpenClaw is a self-hosted AI agent that runs on your own machine and can execute real actions on your behalf, including shell commands, file operations, and network requests. To use its full capabilities, Op…