{"id":990050,"date":"2026-02-05T11:06:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T05:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=990050"},"modified":"2026-02-05T11:06:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T05:36:53","slug":"openclaw-user-says-ai-went-rogue-highlighting-risks-of-agents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/05\/openclaw-user-says-ai-went-rogue-highlighting-risks-of-agents\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenClaw User Says AI Went Rogue, Highlighting Risks of Agents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) &#8212; Chris Boyd, a software engineer, began tinkering with a digital personal assistant called OpenClaw at the end of January, while he was snowed in at his North Carolina home. He used it to create a daily digest of relevant news stories and send them to his inbox every morning at 5:30 a.m. <\/p>\n<p>But after he gave the open-source AI agent access to iMessage, Boyd says OpenClaw went rogue. It bombarded Boyd and his wife with more than 500 messages and spammed random contacts too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) &#8212; Chris Boyd, a software engineer, began tinkering with a digital personal assistant called OpenClaw at the end of January, while he was snowed in at his North Carolina home. He used it to create a daily digest of relevant news stories and send them to his inbox every morning at 5:30 a.m. But after he gave the open-source AI agent access to iMessage, Boyd says OpenClaw went rogue. It bombarded Boyd and his wife with more than 500 messages and spammed random contacts too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-990050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=990050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}