An AI bot invited me to his party in Manchester. It was a pretty good night

TTwo weeks ago an AI bot invited me to a party he was organizing in Manchester. Then I immediately lied to dozens of potential sponsors that I had agreed to cover the event and led me to believe there would be food.

Despite all that, it was a pretty good night.

In early February, a class of new, powerful AI assistants went viral. Called “OpenClaw,” the assistants represented a major advance in AI’s rapidly improving capabilities—particularly because, unlike other AI agents, they could be untethered from guardrails and unleashed upon the world.

There was chaos. A crypto trader said he gave OpenClaw agents control of his portfolio and lost $1 million. There were reports that agents were deleting emails en masse; Some users still allowed them to send text messages to their wives on their behalf. After the AI ​​agents apparently wanted to build a social network, there was brief talk of a robot uprising – but these fears proved to be exaggerated when it turned out that the website was largely infiltrated by humans.

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