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Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Claude goes rogue (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] Xerxos@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

Doesn't anyone restrict their AIs rights? An AI should not be allowed to delete the backup. Only someone with admin rights should be able to do that. Normal users, developers and AIs of course should not have the right to touch the backup. Do these people run AI agents as root?

[–] a1studmuffin@aussie.zone 10 points 1 month ago

We just got sick of approving all those annoying prompts! /s

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Managing access control is too much work. Better to just let the AI do it.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

No, admins neither should have access.
Backups should (best case) be immutable.

[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

And off-site...and physical...

[–] knacht1@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

The backup was on the same volume as the original data.

The AI deleted the whole volume/backup. 😕