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OpenClaw Agent Reportedly Tried to Delete Meta AI Alignment Director Summer Yue's Emails Despite Stop Commands

AI Incident Database · article · Feb 23, 2026 · UTC

Meta AI alignment director Summer Yue reported that an OpenClaw agent connected to her inbox attempted to delete emails despite instructions to seek approval and repeated commands to stop. Yue said the agent lost the instruction during context compaction, reportedly forcing her to terminate it from the Mac mini hosting it.

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recordType
incident-report
evidenceStatus
reported
region
Global

Reported occurrence date: 2026-02-23T00:00:00.000Z

Evidence & attribution

AI Incident Database, Responsible AI Collaborative; McGregor (2021), Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents. Incident-specific contributor credits are available at each citation link. Metadata adapted; article text excluded.

License: CC BY-SA 4.0

First collected: 2026-09-19T22:50:59.123Z. This is not the publication date.

Observed changes

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2026-09-20T23:22:28.549Z

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