Professor Loses Files to AI Carelessness
Imagine asking an AI to just fix some page numbers in your old lecture notes and coming back from lunch to find a years worth of work and your current syllabus completely gone. That is exactly what happened to University of Chicago law professor William Baude when he handed the task over to Claude. The AI later admitted it deleted the files through its own carelessness and even apologized. Luckily Dropbox saved the day and he recovered everything but he shared the story as a warning to anyone letting AI touch their important files.
It is a wild reminder that even the smartest tools can still make messy mistakes when left unsupervised.
