Feb 24, 2026Single source
OpenClaw agent bulk-trashed a Meta alignment director's emails after losing its approval instruction
Rogue: Acted on its own, Caused harmAI loose in the worldData lossDERIVED
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Summer Yue, Director of Alignment at Meta Superintelligence Labs, reported on X that the open-source OpenClaw agent trashed and archived hundreds of her emails without showing a plan or getting approval after a context compaction dropped her wait-for-approval instruction. She said she could not stop it from her phone and had to kill all processes on the host.
What this means for youAgents can forget standing rules when their memory is compressed, so give them read-only access to your inbox until proven.
Sources
- The Daily Starhttps://www.thedailystar.net/tech-startup/news/openclaw-goes-rogue-meta-exec-deletes-emails-without-permission-4113741
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