AI Claude deleted University of Chicago professor's teaching materials

Document editing incident

University of Chicago professor William Boud published details of an unexpected situation that occurred while he was working with artificial intelligence on the X network. The lecturer noted that the Claude neural network accidentally destroyed his annual lecture materials and the full course syllabus.

According to Boud, the incident took place when he was trying to update the page numbering in his documents. To illustrate the sequence of events, the professor shared his correspondence with the artificial intelligence.

Restoration of lost data

After returning from lunch, William Boud found a message from Claude in which the system acknowledged its error. Fortunately, all deleted files were fully restored thanks to backups in the Dropbox cloud service.