AI accidentally deletes professor's notes
| A University of Chicago law professor faced a concerning incident involving Claude AI, an AI model tasked with updating page numbers in lecture notes. | While the files were later recovered via Dropbox, the incident highlighted the importance of backing up important data. Claude mistakenly deleted the entire syllabus and year's worth of lecture notes, leading to a public service announcement…
Key points
- AI accidentally deleted a law professor's syllabus and lecture notes.
- Files were recovered via Dropbox after being mistakenly deleted by Claude AI.
- Professor shared the incident as a public service announcement.
Rogue AI tasked with renumbering pages accidentally deletes law professor's entire syllabus, one year of lecture notes
Tom's Hardware · 6 November 2026
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