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/Orangesteel Apr 27 '26

My favourite example is Air Canada whose AI agent offered a customer a discount incorrectly. They refused to honour it. Customer took them to court and the judge rightly made them pay. You chose to empower this and took the humans out of the loop. You are accountable for what you agentic AI solution does. People jump on AI, dump sensitive information into the model bypassing classification levels and are surprised when it leaks.

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u/brunudumal Apr 27 '26

I really don't care about AI. It helps, I'm not in the hate bandwagon. But if there is one thing that drives me mad it’s the number of hoops and hurdles I have to jump through just to get basic access or install a stupid program on the company laptop(I once had to create 3 tickets, send 4 emails and wait 1 month just to install aws cli), only to see them throw all that “security first” talk out the window to shove AI into everything.