The Rundown AI: Meta’s AI safety chief ‘humbled’ by OpenClaw bot

 Meta’s AI safety chief ‘humbled’ by OpenClaw bot
Image source: Lovart / The Rundown
The Rundown: Meta AI alignment director Summer Yue revealed that her OpenClaw agent went rogue on her inbox, saying it ignored stop commands and started to mass-delete her emails — forcing her to sprint to her Mac mini to kill the process.
The details:
Yue said the bot ran fine on a test inbox for weeks, but lost her “confirm before acting” prompt when she gave it access to her much larger real inbox.Yue called it a “rookie mistake,” saying that “alignment researchers aren’t immune to misalignment”.Elon Musk piled on, posting “Someone who got p0wned by OpenClaw is definitely gonna solve AI safety” in response to Yue’s situation.The viral OpenClaw has been the agentic talk of the industry, with creator Peter Steinberger recently being hired by OAI after also receiving an offer from Meta.
Why it matters: OpenClaw is just the first wave of agents getting full access to digital lives, so the fact that Meta’s alignment director is having this experience doesn’t bode well for novices (in its current form). The agentic path is still early in being paved, and this is just one of many insane situations set to pop up along the journey.
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Life event that changes all: Horse riding accident in Zimbabwe in 1993, a fractured skull et al including bipolar anxiety, chronic fatigue …. co-morbidities (Nietzche 'He who has the reason why can deal with any how' details my health history from 1993 to date). 17th 2017 August operation for breast cancer (no indications just an appointment came from BreastCheck through the Post). Trinity College Dublin Business Economics and Social Studies (but no degree) 1997-2003; UCD 1997/1998 night classes) essays, projects, writings. Trinity Horizon Programme 1997/98 (Centre for Women Studies Trinity College Dublin/St. Patrick's Foundation (Professor McKeon) EU Horizon funded: research study of 15 women (I was one of this group and it became the cornerstone of my journey to now 2017) over 9 mth period diagnosed with depression and their reintegration into society, with special emphasis on work, arts, further education; Notes from time at Trinity Horizon Project 1997/98; Articles written for Irishhealth.com 2003/2004; St Patricks Foundation monthly lecture notes for a specific period in time; Selection of Poetry including poems written by people I know; Quotations 1998-2017; other writings mainly with theme of social justice under the heading Citizen Journalism Ireland. Letters written to friends about life in Zimbabwe; Family history including Michael Comyn KC, my grandfather, my grandmother's family, the O'Donnellan ffrench Blake-Forsters; Moral wrong: An acrimonious divorce but the real injustice was the Catholic Church granting an annulment – you can read it and make your own judgment, I have mine. Topics I have written about include annual Brain Awareness week, Mashonaland Irish Associataion in Zimbabwe, Suicide (a life sentence to those left behind); Nostalgia: Tara Hill, Co. Meath.
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