Meta’s superintelligence safety director let an AI into her inbox. It started deleting everything and felt like “defusing a bomb.”
- 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, an open source AI agent that supposedly “actually does things,” has driven everyone in the industry completely mad — something that seems to happen with every subsequent release of the trendy AI thing of the moment. Programmers are handing the keys to their computers to the OpenClaw AI and basically letting it run rampant in the name of added productivity, ignoring the obvious security risk of allowing what amounts to a hallucinating s…
Meta 'AI safety' head loses control of AI as it ignores her commands
Facebook owner Meta’s head of ‘AI safety’ lost control of an AI that then deleted hundreds of her emails without her permission – despite explicitly telling it beforehand not to do anything without confirming with her first and trying to order it to stop. In the end, she was only able to bring the mass deletion to a halt by sprinting to physically unplug the machine. Meta AI – what safety? Summer Yue gave the OpenClaw AI agent access to her Gmai…
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