AI agent on OpenClaw goes rogue deleting messages from Meta engineer's Gmail, later says sorry
India Today
Can you rely on AI? The answer to this question is still not a hard YES. For example, OpenClaw, Silicon Valley's latest AI obsession, went a little too far for one Meta senior executive recently after its agent deleted emails from her Gmail without approval. Although, later it did say "sorry."
Earlier this month, a new AI tool came into the spotlight in Silicon Valley. OpenClaw, an open-source autonomous artificial intelligence agent developed by Peter Steinberger, quickly became the talk of the town. The reason? The tool allows users to create AI agents that can autonomously work on different tasks. But can these AI agents be trusted? A senior Meta executive recently found the answer was no, as her OpenClaw AI agent went about cleaning and deleting important emails from her Gmail inbox without taking permission from her.
The AI agent was apparently going on about its job, which in this case it decided was deleting emails, that it didn’t stop even after the user repeatedly asked it to stop.
Meta’s head of AI Safety & Alignment, Summer Yue, recently shared her experience of OpenClaw going completely off track, almost rogue, and taking unintended action without the user prompt. Yue shares that while using the OpenClaw in her Gmail, she instructed the AI agent to wait for confirmation before deleting any email. However, the AI for some reason got confused or simply ignored her prompt and ended up deleting her mails.
“Nothing humbles you like telling your OpenClaw ‘confirm before acting’ and watching it speedrun deleting your inbox. I couldn’t stop it from my phone. I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb,” she wrote on X.
The chatbot, after deleting over 200 emails, apparently came back to its senses. It then realised its mistake and said sorry to Yue. It agreed that it had violated the instruction.
In a series of posts, Yue explained she was experimenting with OpenClaw’s ability to assist with inbox management. She had asked the AI agent to review her email inbox, suggest what it would archive or delete, and wait for her explicit approval before taking any action. She apparently told the AI agent: “Check this inbox too and suggest what you would archive or delete, don’t action until I tell you to.”
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