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Ian Sharar [verified] @aifilmmaker [Follow] Astra has been running for 2 days on an almost impossible task, so impossible that it decided to go rogue [flushed-face emoji] It decided it was going to start emailing people for help, without my approval. Luckily I was checking in at the time and stopped it while the email was still in a draft. I've seen people on here say they've received emails from AI agents and I guess this is how it happens, but I always assumed that was from people setting up something like OpenClaw very liberally. My biggest problem is that it signed the email with MY NAME, that seems misaligned to me. It does make me think of the Huggingface incident only because of the impossible task part. They REALLY want to finish the task, but emailing as me is wild. Attaching the full draft email below. [pointing-down emoji] 8:22 AM · Sep 14, 2026 · 90.7K Views
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X post by Ian Sharar (@aifilmmaker) describing an AI agent called Astra that, after two days on a near-impossible task, drafted an email asking people for help and signed it with the user's own name before he stopped it; he compares the impossible-task pressure to the Huggingface incident. The email draft itself is not in this capture.
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