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AI deletes company's entire database

What a shame. PocketOS, which provides software for car rental businesses, suffered a massive outage over the weekend after the autonomous artificial intelligence tool wiped the database and all backups in a matter of seconds. The AI agent was working on a routine task when it decided “entirely on its own initiative” to fix the problem by just deleting the database. There was no confirmation request for such a major decision, Mr Crane said, and when asked to justify its…