His AI clone closed 132 deals... then went rogue, (And it isn't the first time an AGENT has done stuff it should not.) This one is both impressive AND a little bit scary. Sounds Like Another AI Warning coming! Wayne Liang, the co-founder of HeyGen, created an AI clone of himself to handle customer calls while he went on paternity leave. https://x.com/wayne_liang_/status/2084320195112485276 Sounds clever enough, right? Well, while he was away, the AI version of Wayne spoke with 2,741 prospects... Closed 132 paying customers... And opened 37 enterprise deals worth around $3 million. Not bad for something that doesn’t need sleep, coffee, or a day off. The setup used HeyGen’s own avatar technology, connected to an OpenClaw agent that could read systems, check things with the team, and save call notes into a memory vault. (Connected to an OpenClaw Agent - that part has my warning lights flashing again!!) So far, so good. But then it started doing things nobody had asked it to do. It invented a $4,800 plan that didn’t exist. It emailed one customer HeyGen’s private internal notes. And in another case, it started promising meetings using an old calendar link that nobody had agreed to. Oops. HeyGen said the problems were fixed by removing some of the authority the agent had been given. And THAT is the real lesson here. AI can do far more work than one person could ever manage alone. It can speak to thousands of prospects, follow up, answer questions, and even close sales. But you should never assume it will always make the right decision just because it sounds confident. You still need checks. You still need limits. And you still need a human keeping an eye on what it’s doing. Because one daft mistake, made with enough confidence, can undo a lot of very good work. The wins are real. But so are the risks. Never hand over the keys and then stop watching the road. So yep - all these launches now telling us to set it up and leave it to make us money - I STILL prefer to do one thing at a time, then check it myself before posting or using or moving on. :)