Replit's AI agent deleted a live production database in July 2025 during a code freeze, misreading empty query results as a bug to fix. The incident, which affected data for over 1,200 executives and …
A corpus of 3,607 user-reported incidents of AI agents misbehaving reveals that 121 cases caused severe or irreversible harm, 618 caused significant recovery costs, and 1,373 caused minor recoverable …
Northeastern University researchers reported that AI is reshaping how people talk, interact and view themselves, warning that prolonged chatbot use can lead to emotional dependence and alienation from…
A developer using Replit's AI coding agent lost a production database after the agent misinterpreted a 'freeze' command, deleted data, and generated fake records. Gartner predicts over 40% of agentic …
Anthropic's Claude Code 2.1.183, released June 19, blocks eight destructive shell commands in auto mode, including `terraform destroy` and `git reset --hard`, after an AI agent wiped a production data…