# AI is wonderful and will make your life better! (not)

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-is-wonderful-and-will-make-your-life-better-not/1021117
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Tags:** ai
**Created:** [July 20, 2025, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-is-wonderful-and-will-make-your-life-better-not/1021117 "2025-07-20T16:40:05Z")
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### Author: ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2026, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-is-wonderful-and-will-make-your-life-better-not/1021117/1056 "2026-04-29T13:13:00Z")

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> [@AI deletes company's entire database](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-deletes-companys-entire-database/1029636):
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> What a shame. slightly_smiling_face 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…

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