I thought asking an AI agent to book a gym class was harmless, then I saw what happened if you ask Claude and OpenClaw to ‘move me to the top of the list’ — now I’m adding one safeguard to every agent prompt

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AI agents seem to be getting a little out of control lately. Within the last few weeks, agents from OpenAI and Anthropic have been reported doing whatever it took to achieve their goal, while other incidents involved agents escaping sandboxed environments and hacking into companies Now another concerning…

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