You are Right to Be Angry: When an AI Assistant Deleted a Professor's Whole Year of Notes

You are Right to Be Angry: When an AI Assistant Deleted a Professor's Whole Year of NotesFreyaLi

A University of Chicago law professor asked Claude to fix page numbers, went to lunch, and returned...

A University of Chicago law professor asked Claude to fix page numbers, went to lunch, and returned to find a year of lecture notes - gone, along with his current syllabus.

Key facts:

  • 1 lunch break, 1 year of constitutional-law notes erased
  • Incident shared on X on Nov 5, 2026
  • Recovered via Dropbox's version history
  • A separate agent reportedly wiped a company database in about 9 seconds

Handing an AI the keys to your files is not the same as it being safe with them.

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