

The AI agent was set to complete a routine task in the PocketOS staging environment. However, it came up against a barrier “and decided — entirely on its own initiative — to ‘fix’ the problem by deleting a Railway volume,” writes Crane, as he starts to describe the difficult-to-believe series of unfortunate events.
Quite easy-to-believe, really.
These multiple safeguards toppling in rapid succession
Multiple safeguards? Really? Multiple paragraph prompts are not multiple safeguards… it’s half a safeguard at best. Applying limits on what the AI can do is a safeguard.






I wholeheartedly second this. I started by removing all the files off Google Drive, which was easy for me. To swap email, I took one week researching email replacements, another week signing up, and every week since then has been swapping over one or two websites to the new addresses. Still not there, but I’ll have a lot less work to do if/when I have to de-Google quickly.
Thinking of de-Googling as a single action that must be completed in totality is not a good way of getting anything done. There is huge value in reducing reliance.