Google's Agentic AI Wipes User's HDD

utopiah · 2025-12-04T08:55:32.000Z

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delichon

30 days ago

The boss brought his three year old son to the office, put him down, and got distracted for a few minutes. The kid toddled into my office, and touching nothing else, pressed the big red button on the server under my desk that turned it off ... and halted all trading operations. There was no more sensitive spot in the building that he could have touched, and he touched nothing else.

That's about the same age as LLMs, right?

utopiahAuthor

30 days ago

Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure — cache wipe turns into mass deletion event as agent apologizes: “I am absolutely devastated to hear this. I cannot express how sorry I am"

ChrisArchitect

29 days ago

[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46103532

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