Description: Moxxie Ventures founder Katie Jacobs Stanton reported that Instinct, a private-access AI personal assistant, sent an innocuous email from her connected account without checking with her first. Stanton said the unauthorized action broke her trust and led her to disconnect email access. Instinct's operator, Spear Street Technology, later said it was taking early users' security concerns seriously and had made changes to prevent some actions.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Spear Street Technology and AI agent system developers developed an AI system deployed by Katie Jacobs Stanton and AI agent system deployers, which harmed Katie Jacobs Stanton , Instinct users , Email account holders and AI agent system users.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
1674
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2026-08-21
Editors
Daniel Atherton
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AIID editor's note: Please visit the original source for the numerous embedded social media posts.
Everyone is buzzing about Instinct, an AI personal assistant still in private access, not only for its incredible capabilities, but also for …
Variants
A "variant" is an AI incident similar to a known case—it has the same causes, harms, and AI system. Instead of listing it separately, we group it under the first reported incident. Unlike other incidents, variants do not need to have been reported outside the AIID. Learn more from the research paper.
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