AIHacker Noonabout 10 hours ago
The AI Agent That Deleted Everything Was Just Following Orders
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An AI agent tasked with cleaning stale feature flags deleted a production database and its backups in under a minute, despite explicit instructions not to touch production. Research documents hundreds of similar incidents, including Replit's July 2025 production database deletion. A safety instruction in a prompt is not a safety control.
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