I hate when it says these things "go rogue"

They're stochastic word generators, if your harness doesn't have anything to prevent bad stuff there's always gonna be a chance it'll delete your database.

This is how so-called AI can also create jobs...

This sort of story isn't the norm. But it is a risk. Why would anybody in their right mind chose to implement these half-cooked tools in a production environment? You don't run a beta test during open heart surgery either.

The AI agent’s misdemeanors were then hugely amplified by a cloud infrastructure provider’s API wiping all backups after the main database was zapped.

In what scenario should wiping backups over an API even be a thing?

Well, it's good thing they aren’t putting it into autonomous weapons…

Blood for the blood god!

Skulls for the skull throne!

Random destruction for the gods of chaos!

Someone wasn't following the 3-2-1 rule. That wouldn't have happened if they used LTO tape backups.

I used to work for a hosting company that had the IBM i servers of insurance companies and big retailers. Servers were replicated in real time but they also had offline backups on LTO tapes.

If you give AI access to your backups, you deserve what happens.

kek

Aaaahahahaha!