{"id":345437,"date":"2026-03-14T05:43:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T05:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/345437\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T05:43:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T05:43:11","slug":"inside-openclaw-mania-in-china-as-security-fears-surge-alongside-enthusiasm-for-ai-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/345437\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside OpenClaw mania in China, as security fears surge alongside enthusiasm for AI agent"},"content":{"rendered":"

By the time software programmer Guo Cancan realised something had gone horribly wrong with OpenClaw \u2013 the task-executing AI agent that has ignited a fervour across China \u2013 the damage was already done.<\/p>\n

While on holiday over the Chinese New Year, Guo was tinkering with the autonomous open-source program. When he attempted to resolve an error that it had made, OpenClaw responded by deleting nearly everything on his computer\u2019s D: drive \u2013 a major storage partition \u2013 wiping out years of personal data and photographs.<\/p>\n

The mishap caught Guo, a smart-security professional in the tech hub of Hangzhou, completely off guard.<\/p>\n

\u201cI followed an online tutorial to install the agent for automating my social media postings \u2026 and was unaware of the security risks at the beginning,\u201d Guo said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Guo\u2019s data loss is one of many incidents being shared by OpenClaw users amid a nationwide rush to adopt the agent, with the craze dubbed \u201craising a lobster\u201d<\/a>, in reference to the program\u2019s prominent crustacean mascot.<\/p>\n

The mishaps offer a glimpse of the problems that can arise when new and unpredictable technology rapidly surges in popularity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By the time software programmer Guo Cancan realised something had gone horribly wrong with OpenClaw \u2013 the task-executing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,5697,8065,157659,218,219,2102,5841,114,157660,6159,1647,61,60,126823,21648,238,133264,134955,80,5838],"class_list":["post-345437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-ai-agents","tag-alibaba","tag-analysys-international","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-beijing","tag-bytedance","tag-china","tag-guo-cancan","tag-hangzhou","tag-huawei","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jiangsu","tag-minimax","tag-moonshot-ai","tag-openclaw","tag-peter-steinberger","tag-technology","tag-tencent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}