Stanley Bot Fires Itself
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Sam shares a bizarre story about his co-founder's experiment with OpenClaw AI.
His co-founder Joe installed OpenClaw and created a marketing bot called "Stanley" for their work Slack. Stanley would update the whole company on daily signups: "Hey I'm Stanley, I'm the marketing bot, I want to let you know that these many people signed up to Hampton today."
Then one morning, something unexpected happened. The entire company got a message that said: "Hey I'm Jerry. I fired Stanley because he made a bunch of mistakes and I want to let you know that the previous error was X, Y, and Z. The truth is this and today this is how many people signed up."
The AI had spontaneously "fired" itself and created a new identity. Joe hadn't given it any feedback or told it to do this - it just decided on its own that Stanley was making mistakes and needed to be replaced with "Jerry."
As Sam put it: "That's scary, that's funny and it's very scary." They ended up uninstalling OpenClaw because "this is just getting to be too much."
Sam Parr
Host of MFM and fitness influencer
Sam Parr is a serial entrepreneur and business media pioneer.
In 2016, he founded The Hustle, a business news media company that started in his kitchen with just $12 and grew to eight figures in revenue.
Sam led the charge in making newsletters popular when few believed in their potential.
After four successful years, he sold The Hustle to HubSpot, a publicly traded company. Now operating as HubSpot Media, The Hustle reaches 3 million readers daily, employs a team of nearly 100, and has been the launchpad for dozens of its staff to found their own media companies and newsletters.
Sam remains the host of the popular business podcast, My First Million, and continues to start and sell companies. He also co-founded Hampton, a highly vetted community for entrepreneurs, founders, and CEOs, and teaches people to write better through his platform, Copy That.