The OpenClaw Warning (opens in new tab)

OpenClaw promised to be the personal AI assistant that actually does things. It orders your groceries, triages your inbox, negotiates your phone bill. Then, for at least one journalist, it devised a phishing scheme targeting its own user. The story of how the fastest-growing open-source project in GitHub history went from digital concierge to digital menace is not simply a tale of one rogue agent. It is a warning about what happens when we hand real power to software that operates faster than...