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.
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:
Even more, a lot of databases can be configured so that schema objects can’t be dropped unless there has been no accesses in a certain amount of time.
That would stop an incompetent intern/AI, and slow down malicious ones.
But that wouldn’t stop the AI from deleting the contents of the tables.
Vote Republican?
“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.”