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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Aisha Down

MYSTERIOUS: Viral ai personal assistant seen as step change but experts warn of risks | Mind Blowing Facts

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One OpenClaw user said he recently allowed the bot to delete 75,000 of his old emails. Photograph: Raine Vara/Alamy

A new viral AI personal assistant will handle your email inbox, trade away your entire stock portfolio and text your wife “good morning” and “goodnight” on your behalf.

OpenClaw, formerly known as Moltbot, and before that known as Clawdbot (until the AI firm Anthropic requested it rebrand due to similarities with its own product Claude), bills itself as “the AI that actually does things”: a personal assistant that takes instructions via messaging apps such as WhatsApp or Telegram.

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