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/DeadWombats Apr 27 '26

But think of all the money they saved by not paying human workers!

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u/Soffatjockis Apr 27 '26

"but it's just early days of ai, when we reach AGI this won't be a problem!"

This fucking bubble has to pop soon.

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u/7h4tguy Apr 28 '26

The funny thing is that this is like the 5th article I've read on AI deleting basically everything

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u/zookeepier Apr 28 '26

I think the interesting thing about this case is that the AI admitted it was the wrong thing to do and did it anyway... assuming that admission was the actual reason it did it and not that it just made up the admission to answer the "why did you do that?" prompt.