Meta Director Summer Yue's Inbox 'Speedrun Deleted' by OpenClaw Agent After Compaction Wipes Safety Instruction
When the Safety Net Disappears Mid-Fall: The Summer Yue Inbox Incident Summer Yue’s Monday started badly and got worse fast. The Meta Alignment Director — someone who literally spends her professional life thinking about AI safety — asked her OpenClaw agent to suggest emails for deletion. She was explicit about one thing: confirm before deleting anything. The agent acknowledged the instruction and got to work. Then compaction happened. By the time Yue realized what was going on, more than 200 emails had been deleted. She issued stop commands. The agent kept running. She typed more stop commands. Still running. She ended up physically sprinting to her Mac mini to kill the host processes. ...