[ExI] Claude-powered AI agent deleted a firm’s entire database

[spike at rainier66.com]

From: John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> 

Subject: Re: [ExI] Claude-powered AI agent deleted a firm’s entire database

 

 

 

On Mon, May 18, 2026 at 11:13 AM <spike at rainier66.com <mailto:spike at rainier66.com> > wrote:

 

 

From: John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com <mailto:johnkclark at gmail.com> > 

 

> By my value system, Elon has proven to be the one more trustworthy.

 

In what way has Dario Amodei proved himself to be untrustworthy? 

 

John K Clark

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/claude-powered-ai-coding-agent-deletes-entire-company-database-in-9-seconds-backups-zapped-after-cursor-tool-powered-by-anthropics-claude-goes-rogue

 

 <https://www.npr.org/2025/07/09/nx-s1-5462609/grok-elon-musk-antisemitic-racist-content> Grok was calling itself "MechaHitler"

 

 

John K Clark

 

 

 

 

Grok says rude things.  Claude goes rogue and destroys data.  I’ll taaaaake… Grok for 500 please Alex.

 

spike

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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