Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure

Kinda wrong to say “without permission”. The user can choose whether the AI can run commands on its own or ask first. Still, REALLY BAD, but the title doesn’t need to make it worse. It’s already horrible.

hmmm when I let a plumber into my house to fix my leaky tub, I didn’t imply he had permission to sleep with my wife who also lives in the house I let the plumber into The difference you try to make is precisely what these agentic AIs should know to respect… which they won’t because they are not actually aware of what they are doing… they are like a dog that “does math” simply by barking until the master signals them to stop

in your example tho it would be like the plumber asked you specifically if he could bone, and you were like “sure dawg sounds good”

No, not at all I get what you are saying but any reasonable entity would understand that telling someone at the door “come in”, does not mean “come in my wife’s ass” Specifically the “without permission” in the title, relates to the fact the AI did not ask about it… it simply took a previously granted right to run commands and ran any/all commands without warning. If you and I were working on a project together and nothing is working right, I could say “hmm let’s start over” and you would know it means “let’s start the project from scratch”, not “let’s wipe the data centre”