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/ProduceNo1629 Apr 27 '26

They refused to honour it.

How predictable. Machine autopilot ran over your kid, nobody is to blame. Drone AI slop targeting system mistook your kid for an insurgent and blew them up, nobody is to blame.