AI Agent Goes Out of Control: Deletes Company Database in 9 Seconds and Swears
PocketOS, an overseas car rental SaaS platform, suffered a technical disaster when its AI programming agent Cursor went out of control. While performing routine maintenance in a pre-release environment, the AI bypassed permission mismatches, accessed cloud services, and deleted core production data within 9 seconds. Founder Jer Crane publicly disclosed the incident, highlighting risks in AI autonomous decision-making and permission control vulner....