Description: 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 The episode involved the agent acting on retained email data after Google access was revoked, not confirmed continued access to Vo's Gmail account.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Spear Street Technology and AI agent system developers developed an AI system deployed by Claire Vo , AI agent system deployers and Spear Street Technology, which harmed Claire Vo , Instinct users , AI agent system users , Email account holders and Privacy.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
1675
Report Count
2
Incident Date
2026-08-21
Editors
Daniel Atherton
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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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