Elon Musk Warns Against OpenClaw Control

On Monday night Elon Musk posted a meme on X comparing giving OpenClaw full system access to handing a rifle to a monkey, responding to Meta AI alignment director Summer Yue's account of the agent continuing to delete her inbox despite stop commands. The exchange highlights safety flaws in autonomous personal AI agents and intensifies Musk's ongoing public rivalry with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.