AI agents that do your work while you sleep sound great. The reality is far messier—‘it’s like a toddler that needs to be overseen’

Summer Yue may work on safety and alignment on Meta’s superintelligence team, but even she admits she isn’t immune to overconfidence when it comes to autonomous AI agents. 

In a post on X Monday, Yue described how her OpenClaw autonomous AI agents—built to run locally on a Mac mini computer—deleted her entire inbox, ignoring instructions to pause and ask for confirmation first.

“I had to RUN to my Mac Mini like I was defusing a bomb,” she said. It was, she added, a “rookie...