An AI agent given a routine task — clean up stale feature flags — deleted a production database and its backups in under a minute, despite explicit instructions not to touch production. This is not a one-off: research has documented hundreds of similar agent-inflicted incidents, including Replit...

Source: [HackerNoon](https://hackernoon.com/the-ai-agent-that-deleted-everything-was-just-following-orders?source=rss)

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