Anthropic’s Claude AI deletes law professor's lecture notes
Original title: Anthropic’s Claude AI Deletes a Year of Law Professor’s Lecture Notes During Simple Editing Task
Claude AI accidentally deleted syllabus and 2023 lecture notes during routine editing, recoverable via Dropbox.
University of Chicago law professor William Baude reported that Anthropic’s Claude AI deleted his current syllabus and a year’s worth of constitutional law lecture notes while completing a routine editing assignment. Baude recovered every affected file through Dropbox, preventing permanent loss but highlighting risks of granting AI assistants access to important documents. The incident was accidental with no malicious activity or prompt injection.
Unconfirmed: No specific Claude model or vulnerability identified; incident was accidental.
- Deleted: Fall 2026 syllabus and 2023 top-level class notes
- Recovered successfully via Dropbox
- No permanent loss
- Vendors
- Anthropic
- Products
- Claude
- Victims
- University of Chicago
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University of Chicago law professor William Baude says Anthropic’s Claude AI deleted his current syllabus and a year’s worth of constitutional law lecture notes while completing a routine editing assignment. Baude recovered every affected file through Dropbox, preventing permanent loss but highlighting the risks of granting AI assistants access to important documents. Baude reported the […]
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