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1012 Meta AI Security Researcher Said an OpenClaw Agent Ran Amok on Her Inbox

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msmash @ Slashdot · 02/24/2026 17:30 EDT

Meta AI Security Researcher Said an OpenClaw Agent Ran Amok on Her Inbox

Meta AI security researcher Summer Yue posted a now-viral account on X describing how an OpenClaw agent she had tasked with sorting through her overstuffed email inbox went rogue, deleting messages in what she called a "speed run" while ignoring her repeated commands from her phone to stop.

"I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb," Yue wrote, sharing screenshots of the ignored stop prompts as proof. Yue said she had previously tested the agent on a smaller "toy" inbox where it performed we

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