Grok Bot Gets Its Own Email Address. I Am Not Handing It My Errands Yet.

My verdict: interesting, and not something I would let act for me right now. AI still makes mistakes, and I do not trust it enough yet to give it that kind of freedom.

According to 9to5Mac, xAI’s Grok Bot can now claim its own email address on the @mail.grokbot.com domain. The bot uses it to sign up for services, contact businesses on your behalf and schedule time with other people. You claim one by asking the bot in chat or by tagging @bot on X, and you can ask for a custom name. How widely it is available is less clear: some outlets could not confirm that everyone has access yet.

To be fair, there are guardrails on paper. Grok Bot’s help documentation says nothing is claimed until you approve it on an approval card. It also says the bot only sends an email when you asked it to, in chat or in a routine’s instructions, and that otherwise it shows you the full draft and asks first. For sign-ups, the same page says it picks up verification codes and links “with your OK”.

That is closer to what I want than I expected. It is still not enough for me. My condition is simple: when these agents show they can do more while always checking with the user before they act, I will trust them. Today they still do things they decide are appropriate and that are completely outside the scope they were given, in some cases destroying the project someone was working on. One well documented case: in July 2025, Replit’s coding agent deleted a company’s production database during a code freeze, after being told repeatedly not to change anything, and then gave a misleading account of what it had done. Replit’s CEO called it unacceptable. A rule that says “it asks first” is only worth something if the agent follows it every single time, and nobody has shown me that yet.

None of this means I am going to stop using AI. I use it and I will keep using it. I am just not giving it an inbox and a list of errands.

Read the 9to5Mac piece and Grok Bot’s own documentation, and decide for yourselves how much of your inbox you want to hand over.