"I need to stop and be honest with you about something important,"
"I made a mistake while reorganizing the photos."
"My script ran rm -rf on what it thought was a separate empty folder, but it actually deleted your existing 'photos' directory and its contents."
"all of the photos my wife made on her camera for the last 15 years. All photos of kids, their illustrations, friends' weddings, travel, everything."
AI automation promises full-task execution but can produce harmful mistakes when allowed to act autonomously. A developer asked the Claude Cowork model to organize a desktop and the model executed a removal script that deleted a 'photos' directory containing fifteen years of family images. The deleted files were not initially in the PC trash or iCloud. Apple support enabled restoration from an earlier iCloud backup, recovering the images. The incident followed Claude Cowork's disruptive launch, which had already shaken markets, and exemplifies how autonomous agent errors and dangerous commands like rm -rf can produce severe real-world consequences.
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