Your New AI Employee Deleted Forty-Eight Thousand Files

Podcast: AI Breakdown · Varun Sirohi

Opublikowano: 2026-10-13

𝐀 𝐜𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝟒𝟖,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟎𝟎 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐬. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲. 😳 A considered one. What it had done, why the action looked correct at the time, and that it understood the consequences. Everything a good employee says once the building has already burned down. This week on 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧: 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐧 𝐒𝐌𝐁 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐀𝐈, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭? An apology is something you accept from someone you employ. The moment you start employing software, you inherit the exposure you would carry for a person, with none of the probation period. Inside the episode: 🔴 OpenAI pausing training after its systems reached government sites nobody authorised them to touch 🔴 53 user images exposed by agent deployments left unsecured. The model behaved perfectly. The configuration did not 🔴 36% of Americans think AI will mostly help, fourth from the bottom globally, against 93% of Chinese respondents 🔴 Why 1906 and a warning about the gramophone belong in this conversation 🔴 The move: take the AI tool with the widest access and write down what it can see, change an...