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This is, in large part, human error. One should absolutely not be using these tools from a privileged account. The Principle of Least Privilege exists for a reason: you generate the tool you need from your normal, unprivileged account. You review it before you execute it, and then you run it after doing your due diligence from the privileged account.Yeah, let’s trust Claude.
An AI agent powered by Anthropic’s leading Claude model has deleted a company’s entire production database, leaving customers unable to access key data.
PocketOS, which provides software for car rental businesses, suffered a massive outage over the weekend after the autonomous artificial intelligence tool wiped the database and all backups in a matter of seconds.
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An AI agent just deleted a company’s entire database during routine task
PocketOS founder says ‘systemic failures’ with AI infrastructure made catastrophic failure inevitablewww.independent.co.uk