Welcome to Eye on AI, with AI reporter Sharon Goldman. In this edition: The wild side of OpenClaw…Anthropic’s new $20 million super PAC counters OpenAI…OpenAI releases its first model designed for super-fast output…Anthropic will cover electricity price increases from its AI data centers…Isomorphic Labs says it has unlocked a new biological frontier beyond AlphaFold.
OpenClaw has spent the past few weeks showing just how reckless AI agents can get — and attracting a devoted following in the process.The free, open-source autonomous artificial intelligence agent, developed by Peter Steinberger and originally known as ClawdBot, takes the chatbots we know and love — like ChatGPT and Claude — and gives them the tools and autonomy to interact directly with your computer and others across the internet. Think sending emails, reading your messages, ordering tickets for a concert, making restaurant reservations, and much more — presumably while you sit back and eat bonbons.
The problem with giving OpenClaw extraordinary power to do cool things? Not surprisingly, it’s the fact that it also gives it plenty of opportunity to do things it shouldn’t, including leaking data, executing unintended commands, or being quietly hijacked by attackers, either through malware or through so-called “prompt injection” attacks. (Where someone includes malicious instructions for the AI agent in data that an AI agent might use.)
