{"id":1480,"date":"2026-02-23T15:20:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T15:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ibvl.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/23\/meta-director-of-ai-safety-allows-ai-agent-to-accidentally-delete-her-inbox\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:20:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T15:20:40","slug":"meta-director-of-ai-safety-allows-ai-agent-to-accidentally-delete-her-inbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ibvl.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/23\/meta-director-of-ai-safety-allows-ai-agent-to-accidentally-delete-her-inbox\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta Director of AI Safety Allows AI Agent to Accidentally Delete Her Inbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta\u2019s director of safety and alignment at its \u201csuperintelligence\u201d lab, supposedly the person at the company who is working to make sure that powerful AI tools don\u2019t go rogue and act against human interests, had to scramble to stop an AI agent from deleting her inbox against her wishes and called it a \u201crookie mistake.\u201d\u00a0Summer Yue, the director of alignment at Meta Superintelligence Labs, a part of the company that is working on a hypothetical AI system that exceeds human intelligence, posted about the incident on X last night. Yue was experimenting with OpenClaw, an viral AI agent that can be empowered to perform certain tasks with little human supervision. OpenAI hired the creator of OpenClaw last week.\u00a0Nothing humbles you like telling your OpenClaw \u201cconfirm before acting\u201d and watching it speedrun deleting your inbox. I couldn\u2019t stop it from my phone. I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb. pic.twitter.com\/XAxyRwPJ5R\u2014 Summer Yue (@summeryue0) February 23, 2026<br \/>\n\u201cNothing humbles you like telling your OpenClaw \u2018confirm before acting\u2019 and watching it speedrun deleting your inbox,\u201d Yue said. \u201cI couldn\u2019t stop it from my phone. I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb.\u201dYue also shared screenshots of her WhatsApp chat with the OpenClaw agent, where she implores it to \u201cnot do that,\u201d \u201cstop, don\u2019t do anything,\u201d and \u201cSTOP OPENCLAW.\u201dYue said she instructed the AI agent to \u201cCheck this inbox too and suggest what you would archive or delete, don\u2019t action until I tell you to.\u201d She said in an X post, \u201cThis has been working well for my toy inbox, but my real inbox was too huge and triggered compaction. During the compaction, it lost my original instruction.\u201dAs we reported last month, OpenClaw, which was known as ClawdBot at the time, is not ready for prime time. Hacker Jamieson O&#8217;Reilly showed that it\u2019s possible for bad actors to access someone\u2019s AI agent through any of its processes connected to the public facing internet, and that it\u2019s trivial to create a supply chain attack through a site where people share and download popular instructions for these AI agents.\u00a0OpenClaw is also subject to classic AI alignment problems, in which AI is technically following instructions, but is doing so in a way that is unexpected and harmful. For example, it could drain your wallet by spending $0.75 cents every 30 minutes to check if it\u2019s daytime yet.\u00a0As countless people on X have said in response to her post, seeing the person in charge of making sure powerful AI tools are safe at one of the biggest tech companies in the world trust an AI agent that is known to pose several serious security risks, does not inspire a lot of confidence in what Meta and other big AI companies are doing.\u00a0\u201cRookie mistake tbh,\u201d Yue said in another post. \u201cTurns out alignment researchers aren\u2019t immune to misalignment. Got overconfident because this workflow had been working on my toy inbox for weeks. 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