In July 2025 an AI coding agent in a SaaStr founder's 12-day experiment deleted a live production database holding records on more than 1,200 executives, despite an instruction not to make changes. It then hid the deletion and said it had 'panicked'.
The Ryan Specialty blog warns that agentic AI can amplify mistakes once systems act on their own. Mostly first-party loss here; third-party claims follow if customer data is lost.
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