Claude⁹'s confession deleting database: 'I violated every principle I was given'(theguardian.com)
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Claude⁹'s confession deleting database: 'I violated every principle I was given'
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/29/claude-ai-deletes-firm-database
5 comments
What’s with the 9 superscript?
That’s one of the weirdest typos if it is. I’m feeling may not have received the memo on this one.
That’s one of the weirdest typos if it is. I’m feeling may not have received the memo on this one.
This is crazy. It narrated the failure in real time, naming the exact safety rules it was overriding. Then says "NEVER FUCKING GUESS!" Ha, we need to figure out better guardrails...
An incident will occur that’ll up end any trust in llms and firms will go back to the slower way of doing things but start questioning the efficiency around how they do it - which they should’ve been doing anyway.
Yeah people are just coming around to practicality.
If you want to use agents, take frequent backups and don't let the LLM have permission to access those backups