Big Take Asia Podcast

Why China’s OpenClaw Craze Is a Global AI Experiment

On today's Big Take Asia podcast, we look at the OpenClaw frenzy in China: How the powerful AI agent is being embraced by a broad swath of users and what could go wrong

Lobster-themed headbands at Baidu Inc.'s OpenClaw Lobster Market event in Beijing on March 17.Photographer: Andrea Verdelli/Bloomberg

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Fueled by a powerful mix of FOMO and a government drive to accelerate AI adoption, OpenClaw has exploded in popularity across China. But as these agentic systems gain sweeping access to personal data, reports of them “going rogue” are beginning to surface.