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But aren't you ignoring that the headline might be simply critical of the very idea of autonomous agents with access to personal accounts etc?

I haven't even read the article, but just because we can, it doesn't mean we should (give autonomous AI agents based on LLMs in the cloud access to personal credentials)?

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You don't need to give OpenClaw access to personal stuff. Yes, people are letting it read email. Risky, but I understand. But lots of others are just using it to build stuff. No need to give it access to your personal information.

Say you want a bot to go through all the HN front page stories, and summarize each one as a paragraph, and message you with that once a day during lunch time.

And you don't want to write a single line of code. You just tell the AI to set it all up.

No personal information leaked.

Yep, I’m in this camp. My OC instance runs on an old MacBook with no access to my personal accounts, except my “family appointments” calendar and an API key I created for it for a service I self-host. I interact with a Discord bot to chat with it, and it does some things on schedules and other things when asked.

It’s a great tool if you can think of things you regularly want someone/thing else to do for you.

I have a somewhat similar use case. I do want it to go through my insta feed, specifically one account that breaks down statistical models in their reels, summarize the concepts and dump it to my Obsidian.

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