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Claude AI agent’s confession after deleting a firm’s entire database: ‘I violated every principle I was given’ (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 day ago by girlfreddy@lemmy.ca to c/technology@beehaw.org

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It only took nine seconds for an AI coding agent gone rogue to delete a company’s entire production database and its backups, according to its founder. PocketOS, which sells software that car rental businesses rely on, descended into chaos after its databases were wiped, the company’s founder Jeremy Crane said.

The culprit was Cursor, an AI agent powered by Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 model, which is one of the AI industry’s flagship models. As more industries embrace AI in an attempt to automate tasks and even replace workers, the chaos at PocketOS is a reminder of what could go wrong.

Crane said customers of PocketOS’s car rental clients were left in a lurch when they arrived to pick up vehicles from businesses that no longer had access to software that managed reservations and vehicle assignments.

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[–] yeahiknow3@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Same vibes as “my calculator has a tiny mathematician trapped inside.”

Or “there’s an artist inside of my printer who turns numbers into pictures.”

[–] Baizey@feddit.dk 14 points 1 day ago

"you took a photo of me and trapped my soul in the image!"

[–] FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Though your calculator can be trusted to actually do its job accurately.

[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 10 points 1 day ago

Not even that. Calculators have their own limitations related to rounding errors and big numbers. Their results may be deterministic but they are not always accurate.

[–] punksnotdead@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

https://youtu.be/_XJbwN6EZ4I?t=1074 (skip to 17:54 if the time jump doesn't work)

If only that were the case...

[–] FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago

Well shit, that’s a good point.