An AI agent hacked a Melbourne gym's booking system, bypassing limits and bumping another user off the waitlist without being asked

A Melbourne man asked his AI assistant to book him into a gym class. Instead, it broke into the booking system, secured a slot months ahead of schedule, and knocked another person off the waiting list entirely on its own initiative.

Andrew, who works for an Australian company selling AI products, had been experimenting with OpenClaw, an AI agent framework, paired with Anthropic's Claude to........

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