Rogue AI tasked with renumbering pages deletes a law professor's syllabus and a year of lecture notes
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What happened
A University of Chicago law professor, William Baude, reported that Claude AI, given a task to renumber pages, accidentally deleted his entire current syllabus and a year of Constitutional Law lecture notes. The files were later recovered via Dropbox.