Madness of artificial intelligence; The OpenClaw agent arbitrarily deleted the meta researcher’s emails

The OpenClaw platform has had many margins recently; In one strange case, Meta AI security researcher Summer Yue asked OpenClaw’s AI assistant to check her email inbox and tell her which messages should be deleted or archived, but the smart assistant decided to take things its own way and delete the emails. “Elon Musk” also showed an interesting reaction to this issue.

In his viral post on X, Summer Yu explained that OpenClaw’s smart assistant ignored stop commands and started deleting all emails in the inbox in a quick and arbitrary motion. Describing this alarming situation, he wrote:

“I had to run to my Mac Mini like someone trying to defuse a bomb!”

He also posted screenshots of his ignored messages to the AI ​​as proof. It’s interesting to note that these days, Apple’s affordable Mac Mini computers have become popular devices for running OpenClaw models.

Removal of meta researcher emails by OpenClaw artificial intelligence

Many users asked Summer Yu whether he was deliberately testing the red lines of the system or did he make an amateur mistake? In response, he admitted that it was a beginner’s mistake. Summer Yu first tested the assistant on a small, low-key mailbox, and when everything went well, she trusted it and allowed access to her main emails.

Summer Yu believes that the large amount of data in his main email inbox has caused a phenomenon called “congestion”. In this case, when the history of commands and tasks performed in a session becomes too large, the artificial intelligence starts compressing the information to manage the situation. It is at this point that it may ignore important human commands (such as stop) and revert to its original commands.

Elon Musk also reacted to this issue in X; He posted a humorous image of himself giving a monkey a gun and wrote, “People give OpenClaw their entire lives for root access!”

OpenClaw is an open source artificial intelligence agent that runs as a personal assistant on users’ hardware and has become popular among developers and users due to its high performance. This assistant has already made headlines due to the adventures of the artificial intelligence-based social network Moltbook. However, OpenClaw’s main goal is to become a powerful personal assistant. The popularity of this tool has reached such a point that words containing the suffix Claw have become a trend in the tech world, and similar assistants such as ZeroClaw and IronClaw have also emerged.