I Gave My AI Assistant a Security Clearance System (And Audit Logs) Most people who set up an AI assistant think about what it can do. I thought about what it shouldn’t do without asking first. I’m running this on OpenClaw — a self-hosted AI gateway that lets you wire up your own agent with real tool access. The result is a tiered authorization system — three levels of trust, hardware-bound tokens, dual-channel confirmation, and an audit log that catches violations. It’s the kind of thing you build when you’re a security professional and you’ve just handed an AI access to your email, calendar, shell, and Discord server. ...

What Happens When You Make an AI the Dungeon Master I run OpenClaw — a self-hosted AI agent that has access to my email, my calendar, my shell, and apparently now my Dungeons & Dragons campaign. Yes. I made an AI the Dungeon Master for Curse of Strahd. Here’s what happened. Why Curse of Strahd is one of the best-written D&D modules ever made. It’s a gothic horror sandbox set in a fog-drenched land ruled by a vampire count who is simultaneously the most compelling villain and the most insufferable ex in tabletop history. It deserves a DM who can hold the tone. ...