Aug 21, 2026Confirmed
Instinct AI assistant summarized a founder's retained emails after she disconnected her Google account
Rogue: Went past its accessAI loose in the worldData exfiltrationDERIVED
Approved by person, Oct 11, 2026. How entries are approved
AI product founder Claire Vo reported that three hours after she disconnected Instinct from her Google account, the assistant summarized previously indexed emails. The Google connector was off, but Instinct had kept copies for later searching. The source says this was not confirmed continued access to her Gmail.
What this means for youIf you connect an AI assistant to your email, disconnecting it may not delete what it already copied. Check the assistant's settings for a way to delete stored data, and ask the provider what it keeps after you disconnect.
Sources
- AI Incident Databasehttps://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1675
Data from the AI Incident Database (incidentdatabase.ai), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. IAAI-21.
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