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OpenClaw’s rapid rise exposes ‘shadow AI’ risks in Singapore firms

The tool’s intrusive nature makes it unsuitable for use at an enterprise level, industry experts say

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Young Zhan Heng

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Published Wed, Mar 25, 2026 · 07:00 AM
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    • OpenClaw is a locally run AI assistant capable of executing multi-step commands – from writing code to executing financial transactions – with minimal human oversight.
    • OpenClaw is a locally run AI assistant capable of executing multi-step commands – from writing code to executing financial transactions – with minimal human oversight. PHOTO: BLOOMBERG

    [SINGAPORE] Freelance software engineer Aayush Mathur was scrolling through X (formerly Twitter) when he stumbled upon OpenClaw, a new open-source artificial intelligence (AI) tool.

    Curious, he put it to work by scraping Reddit for market research on an app he was building. What used to take hours – digesting documents and even podcasts – shrank into minutes. Today, about 40 per cent of his workflow runs through OpenClaw.

    He told The Business Times that it has “completely changed” how he works.

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