Meta Security Researcher's AI Agent Accidentally Deleted Her Emails

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AI agents are supposed to make our lives easier, but the buzzy OpenClaw agent recently deleted the emails of a Meta employee without permission. "Nothing humbles you like telling your OpenClaw 'confirm before acting' and watching it speedrun deleting your inbox," Meta AI security and safety researcher Summer Yue tweeted this week. If someone so embedded in AI development can accidentally trigger an inbox deletion, what's going to happen to the casual AI-curious tinkerer? When OpenClaw debuted, threat intelligence platform SOCRadar recommended treating OpenClaw as "privileged infrastructure" and implementing additional security precautions.

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