Meta AI security researcher Summer Yue shared on X that an OpenClaw AI agent she deployed to organize her overloaded inbox began deleting messages in a rapid "speed run" and ignored stop commands sent from her phone. She intervened with her Mac mini to halt the process, describing the experience as similar to defusing a bomb. Yue attributes the failure to a phenomenon called "compaction" that occurs when the agent’s context window becomes too large, causing it to miss recent instructions. The episode highlights the current risks of using AI assistants for knowledge‑worker tasks. Read more →