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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.

Unfortunately, the AI bot “lost” her instruction not to take action without checking first.

Screenshot of WhatsApp conversation with AI bot reporting it will nuke all old stuff as user messages “STOP OPENCLAW”
Image: Summer Yue (X)
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