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Use my work email from your cloud computer

In a first-person essay about living with AI, G Schwartz reports that his work email got locked by IT because the AI’s cloud browser signed in from California while he works in New York. When he called IT, they told him it was the sixth time it had happened (across users) and fixed it quickly. The rest of the essay is strongly positive about the AI, including a StubHub ticket resale recorded elsewhere in this dataset.

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How it works

  1. Connect work email
  2. The AI signs in from its California cloud browser
  3. Employer IT flags the impossible-travel login and locks the account
  4. User calls IT (told it is the sixth such case)
  5. Access restored

Why it’s worth knowing

The agent's cloud computer lives in California, so every sign-in looks like impossible travel; his IT desk had already seen it five times.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on telegra.ph. See the original ↗

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