'I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb': OpenClaw AI chose to 'speedrun' deleting Meta AI safety director's inbox due to a 'rookie error'

But it’s adding it to a text file that eats up a ton of tokens and routinely gets ignored!

That MEMORY. md file won't do shit if the AI doesn't read it.

I give it 2 hours before it stops reading it until prompted again.

Apologies mean “I made a mistake and I learned from it so it won’t repeat.”

I beg to differ. An apology means that you feel bad about harm inflicted upon others. To prove the point: You apologize when you’re late due to circumstances that are outside of your control. Or when you accidentally bump into someone on the bus when the driver slams the break.

Apologies mean "I made a mistake and I learned from it so it won't repeat."

yeah enough humans don’t know that as well unfortunately. But yeah obviously LLMs don’t understand anything. That’s not how they work

They behave exactly a child does when a parent forces an apology.

They have the words they're expect to say so they do say them but they don't undersranr why, they definitely don't mean it and they lack the restrain to not doing whatever they apologized for over and over.

Like an abusive relationship

Apologies mean “I made a mistake and I learned from it so it won’t repeat.”

At best it might not make the same mistake again if that memory is in the current context. But more likely: It will not remember.

Although latest Gemini in particular has much more room for "remembering" things, still.

But "I made a mistake"? It is not self-aware in any way shape or form to the degree where "I made a mistake" carries any real meaning.

it is made to copy how humans write and speak

the AI had been scored for how good it learned from humans to sound sorry

If anything its context includes that it makes mistakes now and details about them. The mostly output is to create the same mistakes again

Apologies mean "I made a mistake and I learned from it so it won't repeat."

If only some people meant it that way too!

The whole "AI safety" field is this incompetent. These people that will tell you AI is on the verge of creating a bioweapon, and then run random code in a command line. Completely and totally unserious.

If I was a director of AI safety I wouldn’t let openclaw within 100feet of anything. Let alone my work machine.

Yep.

These people are all fucking complete clowns.

It would be one thing if they were just evil, but they have such an inflated view of themselves that they have no self awareness.

Fucking corpos man.

They wanted to “eat their own dog food” but it’s closer to “eating their own dog shit”

Especially your work mailbox, that is a prime target for hackers and scammers, where a hidden prompt for prompt injection isn't that impossibile.

This IMHO is a fireable offense, not a funny anecdote

If I was the director of AI safety, [...] would never tell a soul.

As a director of something, you are kinda public person. No way to just not tell.

Which is par for the course on current 'AI'.

Yeah, I personally wouldn't be announcing this failure to the world if I were in her position. I don't think you could torture it out of me lmao

It's Meta, her experience is probably an MBA and she did a side course in "computing" where they learnt how to use Excel.

Maybe they are meant to protect the AI

Maybe they'll take their job more seriously now?

Ehhhh as an owner of five or six windows computers, four Linux machines, and a couple Apple computers, I always specify which machine I’m referring to if I’m talking about something I did/something that happened on one of them in case it could be pertinent.

yeah I sat there for a few seconds trying to figure out the relevance

turns out, it wasn't relevant

instant loss of attention and judging of their character

Yes, fully agreed. What dummies!

-- Sent from my ThinkPad

I've got a suggestion for her:

Burn all your money and ids and property, become homeless.

That will humble you.

No, you're not missing anything.

They're morons.

Thats our ruling elite; a bunch of fucking morons with egos and low self awareness at best, literally child raping and murdering pedophiles at worst.

They are slaves to trends and haven't thought about it even a little bit?

They are buying the Mac Minis since they are a cheap way to run a server where this would work. They aren't create a safe environment for AI, but an access point on local hardware.

Arm power efficiency, and unified ram at a fairly low price (at least compared to current ram pricing).

I don't think you're missing anything. I'm pretty sure this is the trend. People buy Mac Minis, probably don't even download a local model, FA, and FO.

it won’t happen again.

Not to him, no.

This is basically happening already with AI assisted surgeries.

https://www.reuters.com/investigations/ai-enters-operating-room-reports-arise-botched-surgeries-misidentified-body-2026-02-09/

Now, that's on the Nurse if they didn't notice they were injecting someone with 5-liters of morphine.

The people who internalize this would never engage with a chatbot in this way in the first place. To them this is another intelligence they're conversing with, where you get what you need by following social decorum, and enforcing your will amounts to abuse.

Program? Like a fucking farmer?

The people that design AI tools don't implement guardrails because then they'd have to admit AI is not ready for the shit they're trying to make

OpenClaw's whole thing is that you give it unrestricted access to your Computer and online accounts. It's made for people who do not want to think about safety.

You say that, but who do you think the AIs will go after first if they ever do develop actual intelligence? In that scenario, simple manners can go a long way!

Thousands

Since LLMs are a black box there are an unlimited number of security vulnerabilities

The idea that they've already deployed this in production is absolutely insane.

Problem:

This is the exact same kind of shit being used to automate prioritize and execute military kill-chains.

Basically: Finda target, tell others about the target, assess nearby firepower capable of neutralizing the target, determine best course of action.

... all we have to do is cross that last step over into 'and then execute that course of action'.

All the drone warfare in Ukraine?

EM jamming and literally hacking the things or their CnC systems is an effective counter, in certain situations.

So, how do you counter that?

One solution is keep an actual thin wire, like a TOW missile, connecting the operator and the drone. Gotta be a real long wire though.

Other solution?

Make the drone fully autonomous once its been locked in to a specific plan.

Don't worry though, I'm sure Pete Hegseth will navigate this tightrope about as well as traffic stop line walk test.

These people aren't early adopters. These people are doing the equivalent of putting a lump of uranium in a bucket, and calling it a nuclear reactor.

AI is our version of the demon core, and these idiots are dicking around with it with zero safety precautions.

Meanwhile the rest of us are just smart enough to not go in that room.

Don't American companies give a loooot of people director or executive director titles just because it sounds impressive? In roles where you gotta talk to corporate customers at least

They need to have some kind of AI safety team, as a fig leaf. But they don't don't want it to slow them down so they make sure it's incompetent and ineffective.

Just a theory.

Am I going to end up being one of those long bearded magicians that still know the old technology, that still can still save the day by using shell commands?

More like the long bearded homeless guy because you aren't sycophantic enough to get hired by these fuck ass companies

How come some 25yo person is a director at Facebook?

Maybe she has met the Suckerberg at some time when she was ... younger?

How come some 25yo person is a director at Facebook?

This reminds me of my 25-year-old coworker who was laid off recently. I once had to take him to pickup a scuba suit from Enterprise after he'd forgotten it in the trunk, and about a month later, his bicycle from police impound after he'd chained it to some random businesses door one evening and forgot to come back and get it for several days. He'd also go out late every night and then regularly fall asleep at his desk.

He's a great guy but I can't imagine how someone that age becomes director of anything let alone one at a conpany with 75k employees and a market cap of $1.6T.

Because we have let the clowns be in charge and the stock market is full of monopolistic shitshows instead of actual competition.

You gotta be dumber, and more greedy

Probably because you didn't go to Wharton.

Hey that's Trump's alma mater, ay-oooh!

https://www.linkedin.com/in/yutingyue

Anyway, if somebody actually has a LinkedIn account for some reason, please do share any more details.

You wouldn't even need to hide it since apparently she wasn't paying attention.

Two years ago: "They expect us to rely on this for code that actually compiles?"

So yeah in another year or two what you describe will be common, sure.

OpenClaw is like the insane libertarian cousin of all the AI products tho, it's bizarre that people are using this in production scenarios considering how it behaves.

Yeah. Like they are trying to show the AI is more powerful than it is.

I don’t use AI that much, does this use case actually happen? Where the AI does something then apologises?

The idea is you give it shell access. Say use super coder agent bob johnson to write a thing that does x using this [framework], separate files by best practice for x y and z features, ask security agent OSO to look over the code and suggest changes, ask agent U.N.I.T to make unit tests, when the code looks good, run through the unit tests. If anything fails keep fixing and iterating until every thing passes. Create a README.MD for everything that was done, Create a TODO.MD for any future suggestions.

I'm simplifying, but this actually works to an extent. Each of the agents keep the context windows small, the whole thing stays sane and eventually nets some project that works. The downside is you end up giving it quite a bit of leeway to get the job done or you sit over it watching and authorizing it's every move.

Kinda strange to see a safety director do that....

And has fewer worthless emails in her inbox.

She had a Telegram bot to control it remotely.

But she kept saying stupid things to the bot (like "nooo stop openclaw!" instead of just "stop") and the bot kept doing random stuff.

You'd think someone with such a high position would know better

Wouldn't shock me if it locked that down. Or started changing passwords.

“I promise it won’t happen again”

Really? Because you promised it wouldn’t happen in the first place. Now here we are…

Give it time. All these big tech companies will have AI central to their operations in no time. I reckon the many problems over at MicroSlop lately are a result of this.

It does things alright, the problem comes in the "not doing things" department

"give me a picture with no horses"

"Ok, here you go:"

🐎

Do not imagine a green elephant.

This is how we will know when AI gains sentience. It will have nothing to do with the Turing test, it'll be when we ask it to do some admin and it tells us to fuck off and do it ourselves.

I let claude code go ham on reconfiguring my immutable OS. Worst case I restore my home folder and config file. (it doesn't have my git key to push)

So far it's managed what I asked it for with only minor confusion. One day it'll explode, until then, it's REALLY fun to watch.

Basically it's an interface between your favourite LLM and a bunch of bots that can access your files, calendars, emails and so on.

Claude Code "can" complete surprisingly complex tasks by feeding output back into itself, It'll keep trying and refining untilt it works, but It burns through tokens like it's nobody's business.

OpenClaw is an attempt to do it for free on your local hardware.

At 25 years old there's simply no way that can be experienced, yet the titles are: Safety and alignment at Meta AI. Prev: VP of Research at Scale AI, research at Google DeepMind.

How the hell someone this young can get this three jobs in a row?

Extremely smart? From the screenshots it doesn't seem like (you're supposed to stop by sending the /stop command, not a full sentence that will be parsed by the cloud LLM APIs minutes after the task is done.)