Yesterday, we wrote about Clawdbot, a new AI personal assistant that’s achieved viral status in Silicon Valley. Many AI agents have been criticized for over-promising and under-delivering, but early users are raving about Clawdbot. That would be impressive enough, but this open-source tool is also completely free — no purchase price, no subscriptions, no nothing.
So, what’s the catch?
Clawdbot’s creator Peter Steinberger is completely transparent about the fact that running Clawdbot comes with certain risks. As he writes on Github, “Running an AI agent with shell access on your machine is… spicy.”
Before you install Clawdbot and start running it on your device (or before you buy a whole new Mac Mini to power it), you should understand the security risks.
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