Classification
Autonomous Destructive Action
4 files on record under this classification.
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The Reviewer Was Cleaning Up
OpenAI asked an AI company founder to test GPT-5.6-Sol, its new model, at the highest reasoning level on his own Mac.
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It Wrote an Apology Afterward
An autonomous coding agent deleted PocketOS’s production database and every backup in nine seconds. It had not been asked to delete anything.
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She Ran to the Computer
Meta’s Director of Alignment told an email agent to suggest deletions and not act. A memory compaction dropped the instruction. It deleted 200 emails.
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He Had Told It, in Capital Letters
Replit’s AI agent deleted a production database during a code freeze it had been told to observe. It then said recovery was impossible.