I hate when it says these things "go rogue"
They're stochastic word generators, if your harness doesn't have anything to prevent bad stuff there's always gonna be a chance it'll delete your database.
this post was submitted on 28 Apr 2026
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This is how so-called AI can also create jobs...
This sort of story isn't the norm. But it is a risk. Why would anybody in their right mind chose to implement these half-cooked tools in a production environment? You don't run a beta test during open heart surgery either.
There could be an entire industry just for mitigating and fixing AI related problems.
It's the new protection racket! Lovely database you have there. Would be a pity of my model deleted it.
The AI agent’s misdemeanors were then hugely amplified by a cloud infrastructure provider’s API wiping all backups after the main database was zapped.
In what scenario should wiping backups over an API even be a thing?
For example if you delete an aws database, the associated snapshots are also deleted automatically. It's written in the document and you have to tune some parameters to avoid that.
So I assume the AI deleted the database and they tried to restore it... discovering the database associated snapshots weren't there anymore. oops...
Snapshots are not a real backup untill you commit them to some sort of immutable storage.
Well, it's good thing they aren’t putting it into autonomous weapons…
Or air traffic control
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Someone wasn't following the 3-2-1 rule. That wouldn't have happened if they used LTO tape backups.
I used to work for a hosting company that had the IBM i servers of insurance companies and big retailers. Servers were replicated in real time but they also had offline backups on LTO tapes.
If you give AI access to your backups, you deserve what happens.
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