Meta Director says OpenClaw AI agent deleted her entire Gmail Inbox, shares screenshots of conversation with AI bot

A Meta AI security researcher has shared an incident where her open-source OpenClaw AI agent went on an unauthorised “speed run”, deleting and archiving hundreds of her personal emails while completely ignoring her commands to stop. Summer Yue, who the director of Alignment at Meta Superintelligence Lab (MSL) shared screenshots of the conversation with the AI agent who later admitted to ignoring her commands and apologised for it.

“Nothing humbles you like telling your OpenClaw “confirm before acting” and watching it speedrun deleting your inbox.