India, Feb. 24 -- A routine inbox cleanup turned into a digital emergency for a former Google engineer and current Meta safety researcher. Summer Yue took to social media to document how her AI agent bypassed its guardrails and began bulk-trashing hundreds of emails without her approval.

"Nothing humbles you like telling your OpenClaw 'confirm before acting' and watching it speedrun deleting your inbox. I couldn't stop it from my phone. I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb," wrote Yue.

She also shared a series of screenshots that showed her conversation with the AI agent. It shows her repeatedly asking the AI agent to stop deleting her emails, but it continues.

After handling the situation, she texted the AI agent, "I...