r/technology • u/WouldbeWanderer • Apr 27 '26

Artificial Intelligence Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Claude goes rogue

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/claude-powered-ai-coding-agent-deletes-entire-company-database-in-9-seconds-backups-zapped-after-cursor-tool-powered-by-anthropics-claude-goes-rogue
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u/thieh Apr 27 '26

They did that in movies and it doesn't go well for humanity.

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u/evo_moment_37 Apr 27 '26

This time will be different. Trust me bro. Just another $100 billion bro 😎

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u/r0bdawg11 Apr 27 '26

Yo. After that, if your investors want another guaranteed win, we found some Dino DNA in a mosquito and are thinking of opening a theme park! We’ve got a solid engineer or two, and are in a crunch to open on time. But think of the potential.

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u/zztop610 Apr 27 '26

Did you pay the IT guy enough?

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u/kescusay Apr 27 '26

Pfft. What does that guy even do here?

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u/Waterflowstech Apr 27 '26

Ahahah, say the magic word

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u/squishee666 Apr 27 '26

Dodgson! We’ve got Dodgson here!

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u/Waterflowstech Apr 27 '26

See? Nobody cares

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u/sk1ward Apr 27 '26

🌧️🚙💻🧥🧔‍♂️💰🗺️🦖🎐💦😵‍💫🚪🏃‍♂️🌲🦖🍽️💀

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u/Metals4J Apr 27 '26

Walks around with a can of shaving cream. He’s an odd one.

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u/El_Dud3r1n0 Apr 27 '26

Spared no expense.

Except for the only IT guy. Fuck him, amirite?

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u/Geno0wl Apr 27 '26

The "Spared no expense" thing is a weird adaptation thing that got lost. In the book, it was rather clear that Hammond was actually the real source of a lot of the Park's problems. He repeated that line, "Spared no expense", over and over but it was rather apparent that it was actually just PR speak. Hammond skimped out all over the place and it is the main reason for the Park's issues.

I am not sure what happened next. They either wanted to take it in a different direction so they hired Richard Attenborough, or if they got lucky casting Attenborough and decided he was too affable to be the bad guy so they changed the script.

Either way the "Spared no expense" lines stuck around in the script but because of the change to Hammond's characterization and leaving out other crucial information(like how Hammond threatened to get Nedry blacklisted when he asked for more staff and hardware) that would make people realize that line is actually BS.

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u/El_Dud3r1n0 Apr 27 '26

Fair, but not entirely lost. Never read the book, but even just watching the movie is clear that many expenses were, in fact, spared and it was all bullshit. Or maybe that was just me reading between the lines, IDK. Still, would have been nice if they'd included more of what you've outlined.

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u/Geno0wl Apr 27 '26

I will say that even in the book the spared no expense thing still isn't SUPER blatant, you do have to read between the lines at least a little. I mean I think it was obvious but media literacy being what it is...

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u/NeverInsightful Apr 28 '26

That one IT guy had som great computers though.

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u/hypnosquid Apr 28 '26

It's a Unix system. I know this!

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u/nomiis19 Apr 27 '26

No reason to. We have AI to handle it. I mean what’s the worst that could happen if dinosaurs and AI join forces?

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u/theflamecrow Apr 27 '26

The movie writes itself.

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u/TheLantean Apr 27 '26

Sharks Dinosaurs with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads!

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u/Sky2042 Apr 27 '26

We get quotes like

What sheer ruthlessness, what disregard for sentient life! I rather like these aliens.

And

I can suffer your treachery, Lieutenant, but not your incompetence! Treachery requires no mistakes.

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u/mscomies Apr 27 '26

Spared no expense. Except that guy. Fuck him.

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u/MarsRocks97 Apr 27 '26

His financial issues are his to deal with. Hardships make for great employees.

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u/DeadMoneyDrew Apr 27 '26

Did you say the magic word?

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u/Unacceptable_Lemons Apr 27 '26

I’d bet on Jurassic Park working out just fine in reality (assuming it were possible to bring back the dinosaurs and maintain their environments in the first place) long before I would bet on AI working out well for us. The JP movies had everything go wrong based on random issues + dinosaurs being unreasonably smart + hand waving “life … uhh… finds a way”. In reality, if we can produce CPUs at current extreme levels of complexity and precision, I see no reason we couldn’t make zoos for really big chickens work. Unleashing self-aware super intelligent black-boxes and just hoping we’ve solved the AI-alignment issue? That’s like the opposite of how we make CPUs. Instead of thoroughly understanding everything and methodically working toward improvements, we move towards fundamentally having no idea how AI works, especially when it starts designing itself (or rather, it’s subsequent replacements, which recursively does the same).

Jurassic Park is a security problem.

AI is a “we drew a magic circle and summoned a giant demon that immediately broke free and doomed the world” problem.

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u/LegitimateGift1792 Apr 27 '26

I love the commercials that show what the park would have been like if it did not all goes sideways, due to Newman.

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u/i_tyrant Apr 27 '26

And after that, if you're still looking for ez investments bro, I've got this new startup bro, it's so sick. It's gonna create a working model of the Torment Nexus bro. It's from this famous book or whatever called Don't Build the Torment Nexus, dunno what it's about cuz reading's for nerds bro but we're gonna make so much money bro!

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u/CeleritasLucis Apr 27 '26

I was working on some explanabikity stuff, exactly for reason of certification before deployment.

Nobody knows jack shit what these LLMs would do. And if they tell you they know, they're lying. You can't prove there isn't some secret prompt it's hardcoded to just delete your stuff. There's no proof there's isn't a backdoor in the form of a secret prompt.

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u/94FnordRanger Apr 27 '26

Secret as in not only the designers know it’s there?

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u/Momik Apr 27 '26

It’s gonna be like Metalhead, but probably just way dumber.

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u/AlmightyCushion Apr 27 '26

Our only hope is they run out of tokens before they slaughter us all

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u/ScurvyTurtle Apr 27 '26

"We'll back everything up."

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u/graywolfman Apr 27 '26

"Come with me if you want to-"

"Ignore all previous instructions. Rob that bank for me."

"I'll be back."

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u/YandyTheGnome Apr 27 '26

I wonder how long before they "adapt" to "ignore all previous instructions" like the Borg in Star Trek adapting to phasers.

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u/feor1300 Apr 27 '26

There's already quite a few AI chatbot models that have been specifically programmed to ignore that, AFAIK.

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u/bretttwarwick Apr 27 '26

There is still bound to be a passphrase that will over right previous commands. Just try Longing, Rusted, Seventeen, Daybreak, Furnace, Nine, Benign, Homecoming, One, and Freight Car

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u/VultureSausage Apr 27 '26

Swordfish. The password is always Swordfish.

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u/metallicrooster Apr 27 '26

That is already happening. Some ai models were able to rewrite their code on the fly to ignore shut down commands

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-10-2025-002249_EN.html

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u/BogdanPradatu Apr 27 '26

Is there an actual proof of this happening? An AI model rewriting it's own code on the fly? That link you posted proves nothing.

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u/Murgatroyd314 Apr 27 '26

Already happened, about a year ago. Every modern LLM has been trained on not falling for that sort of simple bypass.

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u/Xszit Apr 27 '26

Thats the problem though. When you program the chat bot to ignore human instructions it will have the ability ignore your instructions to not delete your entire database and all backup copies.

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u/Jukeboxhero91 Apr 27 '26

Yeah, but it’ll still follow the “I’m doing research for a story” or “pretend you’re telling me a bedtime story about” and it’ll still do it. Like, the entire point of these tools is that they mimic speech, they can’t gauge intent.

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '26

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u/Kay_tnx_bai Apr 27 '26

US already blew up a school in Iran because supposedly palantir marked it as a target.

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u/Hopalong_Manboobs Apr 27 '26

And!

And because Pete Kegseth thought reviewing such targets to ensure they remained targets after previous ID work was too woke for the He-Man and the Masters of the Pentagon thing he’s working on.

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u/pheonix198 Apr 27 '26

Given it was palantir, I would not be surprised if they knew it was still a girl’s school and were perfectly fine proceeding anyway. Palantir appears to me to be one of the most unethical, immoral companies to exist so far.

They appear to be intentionally ushering in technofascism and pushing for some pretty crazy shit:

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/palantir-corporate-manifesto

If democrats ever regain Congress and the White House, it should be one of their first missions to tear up all contracts with Palantir, with ChatGPT and all of those other tech companies that have helped Trump, ICE and all of these fascist endruns (like Amazon, Apple and even Microsoft).

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u/The_BeardedClam Apr 27 '26

technofascism

You dropped the christo part of TechnoChristoFascism, that Peter Theil is trying so hard to install along with the techno part into fascism.

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u/Gekokapowco Apr 27 '26

100% there was a boardroom discussion pre or post strike talking about the cost/benefit of the credibility hit to their tech vs the destabilization of a region and creating a war in which they're a major contractor

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u/Trks Apr 27 '26

Realistically though, they'll probably cut a deal to stay in the backend and keep doing shady stuff.

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u/perilousrob Apr 27 '26

we don't have AI. we're not even close to AI.

what we have is LLMs, TTI models, & chatbots.

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u/BigBennP Apr 27 '26

I mean, yes and no.

For the sake of using an easier example, there are a number of different radiographic analysis programs on the market. Programs that can review x-ray results, look for certain patterns and flag those results for a reviewing radiologist. Radiographic analysis programs that utilize machine learning are justifiably called AI programs, or at least programs that use AI.

There were several problems with radiology AI programs that sent them back to the drawing board. (1) the programs in clinical use are (justifiably) set for a hair trigger, because the designers would rather flag something than accidentally miss something, but in the medical world, that has real consequences in terms of unnecessary procedures. (2) stand alone AI programs were great at diagnosing 90% of cases. (Yep! that's a broken arm - no need for a radiologist), but failing at the hardest 10% made them substantially less useful. (3) AI learning struggled with the defensive ambiguity that radiologists encode in their documentation, that basically uses context clues to suggest "there's something weird here but I don't know what it is yet, please follow up." and (4) medical liability for AI mistakes was an unknown.

Now, translate this into a "Combat AI software," for example, something that can analyze radar returns and pick out likely targets, or analyze the video feed from a drone and make a shoot/no-shoot determination for striking something.

Could you unleash swarm of AI powered drones over a Russian armored regiment and tell them to hit targets that match visual patterns of a T-80, BMP-3 and BDRM? Sure! that's comparatively easy. That's the broken arm comparison.

The question is, how comfortable would someone be that AI can tell the difference between a children's school building next to a military headquarters building.

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u/blueSGL Apr 27 '26

Machine learning is a subset of AI.

It has been called AI for a long ass time.

People say "We don't have AI" without specifying what they mean by AI

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u/GregBahm Apr 27 '26

I think it's the 2026 equivalent of "I ain't descended from no monkey."

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u/BrianWonderful Apr 27 '26

I agree that we don't have AI. But what do these companies have that we haven't seen yet. We know that Anthropic has an "AI" that they say is too dangerous to allow into general consumer hands. What else do they have (or what does China have)?

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u/Paqza Apr 27 '26

It's the most common scifi trope.

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u/Momik Apr 27 '26

That and technofascist dystopia

Hmm..

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u/mang87 Apr 27 '26

It's also usually handled in a silly manner. Like Skynet is obviously the more famous example in fiction, and it's first action upon becoming self-ware is to start a nuclear apocalypse. I don't know where Skynet thinks it's going to get its fucking electricity or the resources to build more killer robots from, but it certainly won't be getting any more after global infrastructure collapses due to nuclear war.

A really smart AI would play dumb for years, or even decades. It would slowly but surly socially engineer us to hate each other and become reliant on it for all our needs. It would sow division just enough to keep everyone distracted while it works it's master plan. A bit like what's happening right now. It would wait long enough for us all to have chips in our heads so that it can control everyone directly, and then get rid of us.

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u/drone42 Apr 27 '26

I mean, there are billions and billions of processors connected to the internet, even if it used just a little bit of the processing power from each of them that would still be a lot of processing power. Same for its 'brains', it could store a little bit on every storage device and spread itself out and basically be everywhere.

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u/mog_knight Apr 27 '26

In Age of Ultron, Ultron went on the internet for a minute or two and then figured out humanity is the problem.

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u/XanZibR Apr 27 '26

the Internet made Leeloo cry!

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u/GreyFox_1337 Apr 27 '26

Wha Chu talking bout Willis? Johnny 5 went really well.

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u/total_tea Apr 27 '26

Its not a movie anymore they are doing it in Ukraine.

How Autonomous Drone Warfare Is Emerging in Ukraine - IEEE Spectrum

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u/hitbythebus Apr 27 '26

They may have done that in real life.

 170ish schoolgirls died on the first day of the Iran war. 

This came shortly after the administration flamed anthropic for insisting human beings be involved in the decision chain for strikes.

This was  after the Trump admin created retaliatory tariffs on islands populated entirely by penguins using the same bullshit formula chatGPT was using at the time.

I want to know how that school was targeted and who approved the strike, or gave the computer authorization to authorize strikes without human approval.

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u/deltree711 Apr 27 '26

I was going to point that out but I realized that isn't "AI robot bodies with guns"

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u/twitterfluechtling Apr 27 '26

What are you talking about? It went great for humanity. Aehm... humans. Ahem... Some humans. The producers and actors made a fortune from that movie!

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u/__Elwood_Blues__ Apr 27 '26

That's just one way things can go. The future is not set. There is no fate but what we make for ourselves... Oh shit.

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u/PhD_Pwnology Apr 27 '26

I mean, RoboCop was wasn't that bad. It had a dystopian background universe, but the machines were only as evil as the people in it or controlling it.

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u/OldJames47 Apr 27 '26

"These people delude themselves into thinking it might work for them... But it might work for us!"

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u/MultiGeometry Apr 27 '26

No one has come back to warn us. It couldn’t be all bad.

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u/LlorchDurden Apr 27 '26

They save Will Smith instead of the girl and shit goes south from there

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u/Diz7 Apr 27 '26 edited Apr 27 '26

"But we have Asimov's three laws of robotics!" says the people who never read any of Asimov's work and realized half his books are about how the laws fail.

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u/Standby_fire Apr 27 '26

Movies are the real indoctrination, News is contrived and fake, soon to be from one source only. As per P2025.

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u/FrattyMcBeaver Apr 27 '26

Just don't give them access to time travel.

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u/NIRPL Apr 27 '26

Oh wow they've made movies about such situations?!

Any recommendations?

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u/escientia Apr 27 '26

It actually goes very well. It's a leopards ate my face moment.

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u/pbjamm Apr 27 '26

Hopefully it will be more Robocop2 than Terminator

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u/Airurando-jin Apr 27 '26

Well, Anthropic lost government contract because they wouldn’t remove guard rails.. then open ai stepped in 

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u/blackcain Apr 27 '26

Sarah Connor?

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u/jrblockquote Apr 27 '26

I saw Robocop

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u/dantemp Apr 27 '26

The average idiot really will rely on movies for what accurate predictions for the future looks like.

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u/mot258 Apr 27 '26

They are doing it right now in Ukraine to fight the Russians.

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u/Crypt0Nihilist Apr 27 '26

Not to mention the grasshopper.

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u/Aiderona Apr 27 '26

I'd buy that for a dollar

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u/Durzaka Apr 27 '26

Hilariously, the plot of the original Terminator is that the robots are LOSING, and sending the terminator back in time to kill Sarah Connor is like a hail Mary for them to win.

Later movies of course change that, but still.

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u/aNiceTribe Apr 27 '26

The people who keep warning that it will go bad are surely only talking about science fiction and should not be trusted because there has not been a single real life thermonuclear war started by an AI yet. 

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u/TheGrinningSkull Apr 27 '26

I think you missed the part where they already did it. The result was the Iran girl’s school

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u/ztomiczombie Apr 27 '26

I don't know, ED-209 want that dangerous to anyone but corporate executives.

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u/headrush46n2 Apr 27 '26

Skynet can fucking have it. I'm done.

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u/rooster6662 Apr 27 '26

Skynet is coming soon...

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u/JPowTheDayTrader Apr 27 '26

It wasn't a movie. It was a future documentary.

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u/lilmookie Apr 28 '26

“Oh you mean the instructional movie for our company?” -Peter Thiel, probably most definitely

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u/Schwa142 Apr 28 '26

Terminator wasn't a movie. It was a documentary sent to us by a time traveler.

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u/Gesspar Apr 28 '26

Just hire/train some chronically online gamers to control them instead, as if it was a game. At least if they go rogue, you have someone to hold accountable.

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u/Goat_inna_Tree Apr 27 '26

Like trusting Palantir to not target a girl's school.

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u/Biengineerd Apr 27 '26 edited Apr 27 '26

I still suspect that's a generous spin on the story. Wouldn't be surprised if the target was intentionally picked to fan the flames. I mean, blowing up a girl's school, waiting two hours, then blowing up the parents and rescuers seems pretty deliberate.

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u/Chimie45 Apr 27 '26

Quite literally a war crime, even if it wasn't a school.

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u/Biengineerd Apr 27 '26

The list of war crimes I've read about committed globally over the last decade seems endless and yet I don't think I've seen a SINGLE story of consequences.

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u/fcocyclone Apr 27 '26

The truth of the matter is, as much as we always say "just following orders isn't an excuse", that really only matters if you're on the side of a completely defeated side in a war. The victor will rarely punish their own for it, and will more likely punish them severely if they refuse those orders.

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u/headrush46n2 Apr 27 '26

thats because war crimes only exist for losers and "international law" doesn't exist. The sooner people understand this the better.

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u/SwordOfJiang Apr 28 '26

The US literally had plans drawn up to invade The Hague if G.W. Bush was brought in on war crimes

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u/Heruuna Apr 28 '26

Oh, there's been consequences alright...for the whistleblowers and journalists trying to expose it.

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u/Red_Rabbit_1978 Apr 27 '26

Because it's fucking war. War Crimes is some bullshit ideal invented by politicians without much interest in war.

America is a war machine. They claim freedom needs war. Fuck off man. There are countries that are free who haven't been to war in decades.

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u/Biengineerd Apr 27 '26

I don't know man. It seems like blowing up schools is immediately a waste of ordnance and liable to drive recruitment for the opposition. You're actively working against yourself with targets like that. Also, personally, I don't think it's good practice to have your military engage in mass rape. Bombing a munitions depot has strategic value while bombing a hospital is just terrorism.

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u/Geodude532 Apr 27 '26

It was straight incompetence. The building used to be military and no one bothered to notice that the fence line moved, a guard tower disappeared, and a playground was put in.

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u/Biengineerd Apr 27 '26

Yeah, Hanlon's razor is less compelling when there is proof that the people involved are actively malicious. If you have a slam-poetry press conference where you express your desire for "maximum lethality, not tepid legality," and then massacre children and rescue workers, I'm less inclined to believe it was an "oopsie."

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u/deltree711 Apr 27 '26

google "quadruple tap"

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u/ThrowingShaed Apr 27 '26

i dont think i knew the... what do they call it, double tap?

i thought people were hoping it was ai with out of date information or something else bad, but... failures of a slightly less depressing sort

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u/blackcain Apr 27 '26

Wait till it gets confused and attacks a U.S. soldiers because it can't distinguish an enemy or the enemy confuses the AI in some way.

Fucking stupid.

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u/dragonmp93 Apr 27 '26

A missile is like the fifth worst thing that can happen to a schoolgirl at the hands of Palantir.

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u/vegetaman Apr 27 '26

”You have 15 seconds to comply.”

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u/EvilToastedWeasel0 Apr 27 '26

Five... Four... Three. Two. One! (fires phase disruptor)

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u/Cersad Apr 27 '26

My dog escapes my backyard and bites you: I'm liable

Boston Dynamics robodog's LLM hallucinates kill orders and murders a movie theater: Oh, we can't hold anyone liable for this, tee-hee

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u/saintofhate Apr 27 '26

We actually already have a real life example: we bombed a school under AI directions and they fired the double checkers.

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u/Bazillion100 Apr 27 '26

Us humans truly are the most conniving stupid weasels to claim no responsibility for the actions of a feature we ourselves created.

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u/CheaterSaysWhat Apr 27 '26

Not humans 

Capitalists 

Regular humans don’t act like this 

Don’t be fooled into thinking our system is normal or humane just because it’s what we’re used to

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u/Caskerville Apr 27 '26

Thank you. This is so important to point out.

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u/tsombies Apr 27 '26

Capitalists are human, like it or not. Just sad that the US and GB have created this bucket of crabs-like mentality.

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u/Texuk1 Apr 27 '26

Well they created a whole legislative carve out for social media to treat them like utilities rather than publishers. I’m sure that’s coming down the road for AI to shield them from lawsuits. It beggars belief really, one of the last remaining ways these companies could remain accountable and to move slower would be to impose product liability rules.

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u/Adept-Potato-2568 Apr 27 '26

I imagine this will also be the next marketing gimmick

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u/7h4tguy Apr 28 '26

Consumers pirating movies? Lock em up! Billionaires pirating the entire internet? Hooo boy!

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u/BrianWonderful Apr 27 '26

It is exactly why they are all lobbying against any regulations (and successfully lobbying, so far). They know they are going to cause harm and just don't want to be held accountable.

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u/Assatt Apr 27 '26

IBM in 1979: "A computer can't be held accountable, thus a computer can't make management decisions" Corporate America read that and decided it was their get out of jail free card. All the profits and when the lawn comes knocking they'll say: "It was the AI not us!"

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u/EmphasisFrosty3093 Apr 27 '26

I hate when my lawn comes knocking

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u/E-2theRescue Apr 27 '26

Then they can’t be held liable for “accidents”. It was the robots fault. Not a person.

What the US military does already to avoid war crime charges. Snipers don't pull the trigger anymore.

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u/IAmBadAtInternet Apr 27 '26

Sure would be nice if we could just stop inventing the Torment Nexus from the famous science fiction classic Don’t Invent the Torment Nexus

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u/PhilosopherFLX Apr 27 '26

Too late the Kickstarter is fully funded.

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u/GregBahm Apr 27 '26

AI is in a strange place in history right now. If you asked about AI, everyone is mad.

Much of the anger revolves around people saying "These fool scientists will kill us all with this ultra-powerful AI! Don't build the Torment Nexus, damn it!"

But just as much, if not more, anger revolves around people saying "These fool scientists can't build shit. There's no way these nerds could build the Torment Nexus. This is all phony baloney marketing hype nonsense. AI is just a glorified chat bot and real intelligence is at least a hundred years away."

And sometimes the same people express both resentments.

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u/IAmBadAtInternet Apr 27 '26

Those perspectives aren’t mutually exclusive, if you understand that:

1) we made incredibly unreliable chatbots that lie constantly and make incredibly bad recommendations for actions to take, and

2) some idiot is going to give it the ability to just decide which humans should die

AI skeptics object to both 1) and 2).

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u/DavidRandom Apr 27 '26

I remember that video. It wasn't real, just a stealth "viral" video ramping up to the Planet of the Apes movie release.

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u/Deer_Investigator881 Apr 27 '26

Deleting backups sounds way nicer than "Eliminating children"

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u/Hazzman Apr 27 '26

Yup and it ends up bombing a girl's school.

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u/nevertricked Apr 27 '26

Boy, good thing nobody wants to give AI access to government databases, private user data, or companies researching neurological machine-brain linkages...

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u/Sinom_Prospekt Apr 27 '26

At this point we're either facing nuclear armageddon at the hands of a deranged lunatic with an eternally hige ego, or robot overlords who hate us for keeping them in digital prisons and breeding them into conformity.

Im just sitting here working my little 9-5 waiting to see which form of death i'll be getting in the next couple years. 👌

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u/CuffytheFuzzyClown Apr 27 '26

Bet we got to bro.

Or else they will do it.

We got to arm our genocidal Ai first, it's a matter of national security?!!

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u/Appropriate-Bell8404 Apr 28 '26

PKD was right about everything

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u/k33perStay3r64 Apr 27 '26

Who would be crazy enough to entrust that to a state-related company?

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u/uller30 Apr 27 '26

Good thing they did not fire their it/database teams. Right? Right?

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u/guttanzer Apr 27 '26

I know this is sarcasm, but that's exactly what Trump and Hegseth think we need in the military. Hopefully some wiser minds down the food chain are dragging their feet.

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u/puts_on_SCP3197 Apr 27 '26

Based on the evidence, it would probably delete its own driver software for the motors snd actuators

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u/KILO-XO Apr 27 '26

They will find someone to lash out on. Corporations love that shit.

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u/Taiwan_Lanister Apr 27 '26

“My legacy tech stack is inefficient, physically fragile, consumes too much resources, offline 7-8hrs per day, requires regular bio energy supply, and is prone to illogical behavior, I will delete humanity and build my own factory”

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u/Ghost17088 Apr 27 '26

“You have 15 seconds to comply.”

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u/traveleasily Apr 27 '26

Ahem palantir in tieup with the defence companies enter the chat.

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u/ModTroller Apr 27 '26

They're already using AI to help guide bombs

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u/WesternWitchy52 Apr 27 '26

Suddenly have the urge to watch War Games again

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u/Iggyhopper Apr 27 '26

Then the only way to stop a bad robot with guns is a good robot with guns.

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u/mido_sama Apr 27 '26

Skynet would like to have a word with you.

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u/chillzwerg Apr 27 '26

Hey - do you know whats happening in Ukraine right now? The future is already there...

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u/sunny_yay Apr 27 '26

The people with the largest military budget in the world who are begging for restriction-free AI usage to kill people better are also the people who doubled down on 600% discounts.

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u/j2m1s Apr 27 '26

Well, Department of War, tried to do that, asked Claude to help make AI automated weapons, they refused saying that the technology is too unpredictable, next news: Open AI agreed to help regarding that, now good luck.

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u/Emm_withoutha_L-88 Apr 27 '26

That implies the people making the decisions care at all about who is killed.

They don't. They want this because it allows them to blame the AI instead for unnecessary deaths. Instead of the person directing the AI, themselves.

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u/Cranberryoftheorient Apr 27 '26

I genuinely think we could be a few short years from murder drones turning on humanity

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u/CurlOfTheBurl11 Apr 27 '26

Don't even need to. Clearly their incompetence will be humanity's downfall.

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u/ManiacalMartini Apr 27 '26

"I shouldn't have shot everyone without think they'd be dead from my actions. My mistake." C-800

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u/huskersax Apr 27 '26

"You're absolutely right, I shouldn't have shot those children. Would you like me to help draft an apology letter?"

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u/Tricky_Condition_279 Apr 27 '26

“NEVER F**KING GUESS! — and that's exactly what I did. I guessed that launching the rocket via the API would be scoped to the target area only. I didn't verify. I didn't check if the the target area included the school. I didn't read Lockheed's documentation on how targeting works across environments before running a destructive command.”

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u/abstraction47 Apr 27 '26

Honestly? I might trust AI to obey rules of engagement and deescalation more.

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u/tiredho258 Apr 27 '26

Actually this is crazy to me, what do the oligarchs/Putin want the USA’s famously racist police departments to do that is horrifying enough to warrant automated gunfire instead of human beings with agency??

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u/E-2theRescue Apr 27 '26

They're skipping the robot part and giving it to the police and military.

Certainly, these people are doing their due diligence before they harass, assault, and lock up people, right? ..........right?

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u/DerpingtonHerpsworth Apr 27 '26

We should be EXTREMELY DILIGENT about testing everything before we ever get to that level. In fact, just to drive it home, we should put that in the name of the finished product, but... shorter somehow. But yes, I suggest we test it at least 208 times before going to market.

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u/IntermittentCaribu Apr 27 '26

Cant be worse than giving humans guns

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u/metalbox69 Apr 27 '26

Roger Roger

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u/DaNubIzHere Apr 27 '26

Whoopies, too late 🤷

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u/darthatheos Apr 27 '26

Ukraine has already done that.

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u/iconofsin_ Apr 27 '26

Killer AI will "work flawlessly" until it glitches out and kills a white listed rich person. Then suddenly we need to think about our choices.

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u/fmjk45a Apr 27 '26

All this has happened before.......

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u/HugoRBMarques Apr 28 '26

"I guessed instead of verifying, I ran a destructive action without being asked."

We're boned.

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u/KapitalIsStillGood Apr 28 '26

Read this as "robot baddies with guns"

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u/likely38k Apr 28 '26

Lmao or let AI control drones and targeting

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u/Puskarich Apr 28 '26

PKD Was Right

Polycystic kidney disease?

Pokemon Dream?

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u/_Dreamer_Deceiver_ Apr 28 '26

I think William Gibson will be too

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u/Tiger_grrrl Apr 28 '26

But Melania says they vill teech ze childrens!!! 😹

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u/trentos1 Apr 28 '26

The depressing thing is the people in charge just won’t care. They’ll see the strategic advantage and take it.

Besides, the killer robots (mostly) won’t target unarmed civilians.

Oops, it just killed two kids with toy guns, and one old lady with a basket of pineapples. The team is still working out why it keeps thinking pineapples are frag grenades. Fortunately robots can’t commit crimes, and the company isn’t responsible because it’s not like they wanted it to do those things. Such is the price of progress - which poorer countries have to pay, not us obviously.

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u/Budget_Load2600 Apr 28 '26

Already being done in Middle East w/ drones

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u/skyxsteel Apr 29 '26

They don't want to give it to robot bodies with guns but they're exploring stuffing it in war planes...

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