2026-09-20T23:22:28.549Z
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Instinct AI Personal Assistant Reportedly Summarized an AI Product Founder's Retained Emails After Google Access Was Disconnected
AI product founder Claire Vo reported that three hours after she disconnected Instinct from her Google account, the personal AI assistant summarized previously indexed emails. Vo said the Google connector was off, but Instinct had retained copies for later searching; reporting indicates the last stored email predated disconnection. The episode involved the agent acting on retained email data after Google access was revoked, not confirmed continued access to Vo's Gmail account.
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- reported
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- Global
Reported occurrence date: 2026-08-21T00:00:00.000Z
Evidence & attribution
- AI Incident Database
- AI Incident Database · 2026-08-24T00:00:00.000Z
AI Incident Database, Responsible AI Collaborative; McGregor (2021), Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents. Incident-specific contributor credits are available at each citation link. Metadata adapted; article text excluded.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
First collected: 2026-09-19T22:50:59.123Z. This is not the publication date.
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