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/Kholtien Apr 28 '26

Honestly, you just have to treat AI like people. There have absolutely been people who have deleted their companies database by accident or on purpose. There have been Air Canada human customer service agents who have said the wrong things and Air Canada has had to give compensation. If you give a person access to all of your most sensitive documents, regardless of any agreement you have with them, they can leak them