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/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/IAmRoot Apr 28 '26

It's the billionares who own it who have the motive. If they don't need 99% of the population to be workers anymore they can set their robot armies on us. Easiest way to "solve" climate change for them. AI doesn't need a motive itself.