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"Gitterton denied everything, claiming that the Computer was simply hallucinating—which does indeed on occasion happen to our senior automata." Written around 1961.
And the HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46898615
Better, earlier post from Cisco: https://blogs.cisco.com/ai/personal-ai-agents-like-openclaw-...
Although, none of this is a surprise, as simonw has laid out.