# AI deletes company's entire database **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** ai\ **Created:** [April 29, 2026, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-deletes-companys-entire-database/1029636 "2026-04-29T03:09:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2026, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-deletes-companys-entire-database/1029636/21 "2026-04-29T22:44:43Z")
No, it’s an AI being stupid _and_ a human being stupid in its security protocols and architecture. Like most massive failures, this isn’t a case where one thing is at fault. There were many failures along the way, and pointing the finger at one of them is missing the point. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2026, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-deletes-companys-entire-database/1029636/22 "2026-04-29T22:53:59Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > So what is AI going to do besides drive up energy costs, consume vast quantities of water, take peoples’ jobs away, and do stupid shit? You missed the “drive up consumer costs” as the effort to implement AI means a number of companies are raising prices/rates on their other products to offset the losses on AI. See Xbox, Amazon, Microsoft, etc. Oh, and lots of job fraud above and beyond outsourcing humans - a friend that was pushed into management has returned to doing only in person interviews because too many applicants were using just-offscreen prompting from AI for technical and coding questions. Not to mention: > [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > Cause an economic crash when the bubble bursts, probably. ---
**Author:** ![leahcim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b4bc9f/32.png) [@leahcim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leahcim)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2026, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-deletes-companys-entire-database/1029636/23 "2026-04-29T23:33:23Z")
> [@Frodo](#): > > That said, very few humans should have the permissions needed to delete the prod database, very few humans and absolutely no AIs. Even more, a lot of databases can be configured so that schema objects can’t be dropped unless there has been no [accesses](https://docs.cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/schema-drop-protection) in a certain amount of time. That would stop an incompetent intern/AI, and slow down malicious ones. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2026, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-deletes-companys-entire-database/1029636/24 "2026-04-30T00:56:06Z")
But that wouldn’t stop the AI from deleting the contents of the tables. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2026, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-deletes-companys-entire-database/1029636/25 "2026-04-30T01:18:45Z")
Vote Republican? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2026, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-deletes-companys-entire-database/1029636/26 "2026-04-30T01:56:50Z")
> [@dolphinboy](#): > > Until we fully understand how and why AI can make a decision like this I think we should stop deploying it to every device we can think of. “You directed me to make the system run more efficiently. I found that it runs at peak efficiency when there is no data to be processed.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-deletes-companys-entire-database/1029636.md?page=1)