Commenters flag broader risks of agent access to personal accounts
4 Sep 22 5:21 AM · 4d ago · 2 comments · 1 source · development 4 of 5
Responses highlighted the vulnerability model of giving AI agents broad access to email and personal files, including exposure of password databases, exfiltration risks, and the impossibility of truly deleting data from remote transcripts.
“What could possibly go wrong with giving a digital mumbling drunk access to all of your personal information and most of your online accounts, given that it could arbitrarily decide to share/expose all of that information with anyone at any time…”
dns_snekfranze Developer who reported the incidentAnthropic Creator of Claude Code agent
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"Give overly-eager chatbot control over your personal email" probably has so many failure modes, we haven't even thought of one tenth of them yet. We've got a few years of this ahead of us. Pass the popcorn.(I see a RomCom script where the chatbot decides to get two people together, and acts as Cyrano de Bergerac for the handsome-but-lunkheaded…
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If you're willing to give Claude or any other AI tool access to your email and files, the least you should do is put guardrails around consequential actions.Reading a contract is one thing. Applying your signature and preparing to send it should absolutely require explicit human approval.
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