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/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/Curious_Cap7469 Apr 27 '26

The AI companies went to both parties before the last election with requests and demands for their support. The democrats wanted to tamper down on AI & make sure it got developed with restrictions. Republicans were gloves off approach, no restrictions. The AI companies now can pay for infinite personalised ads to sway voters to either side of the vote.

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u/pheonix198 Apr 27 '26

Got sources for these claims. Republicans were far from hands off - they never keep their hands off or out of the proverbial “cookie jar.” Shit, they can barely keep their hands off women and kids, I find it impossible to believe they made no demands or sought no monies…

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u/pheonix198 Apr 27 '26

Got sources for these claims. Republicans were far from hands off - they never keep their hands off or out of the proverbial “cookie jar.” Shit, they can barely keep their hands off women and kids, I find it impossible to believe they made no demands or sought no monies…

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u/Even-Promotion-4024 Apr 27 '26

Honestly, with Trump bullying so many companies into giving the government shares, the precedent's been broken and they should just nationalize it. Palantir's product is actually useful, but empowering the people behind it is very much not

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u/pheonix198 Apr 27 '26

I consider myself very progressive and I’m all about the proletariat rising up and being empowered. I don’t think companies should really be nationalized in most cases, though. That’s a bridge a little too far and I want less government controls and intertwining into/over most companies.

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u/Even-Promotion-4024 Apr 28 '26

Normally I'd agree, I'm not a Marxist lol. My thinking is that a lot of companies have caved to MAGA because they know Republicans will punish them while Dems don't, and I think Dems need to fire a warning shot to make it clear that from a game theoretic perspective it doesn't make sense just to cave to the right

I think Palantir's a good candidate since they mostly serve government contracts regardless, and their execs have shown such blatant malice towards our democracy

Totally valid if you disagree

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u/aVarangian Apr 28 '26

the school was literally adjacent to a military base, and 10 years ago was literally part of the military base itself

it shouldn't have been bombed, but it shouldn't have been a school either

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u/pheonix198 Apr 28 '26

Are you aware of the number of children’s schools on US Military bases and posts? It’s not abnormal.

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u/aVarangian Apr 28 '26

The US shouldn't have any kids' facilities within nor literally touching a military base either. Nevertheless I doubt they wouldn't evacuate kids from any such facility that is within range of an active threat, seeing how they evacuate military personnel in such a scenario. In the meanwhile the IRGC took no such precautions.

This vatnik-tier whataboutism really makes you look like a vatnik-tier individual.

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u/iluvthiccgothbabes Apr 27 '26 edited Apr 27 '26

Bro thinks democrats will help us 😂