Three real stories of AI agents going wrong in production — an iMessage bot that sent 500+ messages to someone's wife, an autonomous agent that published a hit piece on an open source maintainer, and Meta's Director of Alignment watching her own inbox get deleted. Plus Anthropic's data on how experienced users actually manage agent trust, and why confidence might be the real vulnerability.

Sources:

• Chris Boyd's blog post: https://chrisboyd.me/blog/openclaw-meltdown/

• Scott Shambaugh's write-up: https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/

• Anthropic — Measuring Agent Autonomy: https://anthropic.com/research/measuring-agent-autonomy

• Simon Willison — The Lethal Trifecta: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/16/the-lethal-trifecta/

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