▸ 0:59The agent that deleted a company's database in 9 seconds
An AI agent wiped a company's entire database, and the backups, in nine seconds.
№ 04 — VIDEOS
One-minute field lessons
Short engraved films from the research — each one a real AI failure and the rule that would have prevented it. Under a minute each.
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▸ 0:49Left alone for 90 minutes, the agent burned $1,400
An AI agent left alone for 90 minutes burned $1,400.
▸ 0:56Filmed at your own desk: when the AI proctor accuses you
A university told students to buy a mirror big enough to show their whole desk and film themselves during the test, just to prove to a machine they were not cheating. Others had to sit through exams with their arms crossed. AI cheating accusations are exploding, and the detectors doing the judging are guessing.
▸ 1:0023 invented court cases, a $110,000 fine
Two lawyers let an AI write their court filing. It invented 23 cases that do not exist, and the judge fined them $110,000.
▸ 1:00The AI yes-man: 49% more agreeable than a human
AI tools agreed 49% more than a person would, even when you were wrong. A Stanford study tested eleven of them.
▸ 0:59The $55,000 bill from one leaked API key
A leaked API key ran up a $55,444.78 Google Cloud bill overnight (reported by Cybernews).
▸ 1:00The canary in the context window
An hour into a long chat, your AI assistant quietly broke, and you trusted it anyway.
▸ 0:50The chatbot that sold a $76,000 Tahoe for $1
A car dealer's chatbot agreed to sell a $76,000 Chevy Tahoe for $1, in writing.
▸ 0:55The boss call that wasn't your boss
A call from your boss telling you to wire a payment today can now be a perfect AI voice clone. Voice-clone fraud is projected to cost 40 billion dollars a year by 2027 (Deloitte), and the FBI is warning every company.
▸ 0:57The job offer that steals your ID
One in three young job seekers say they have been caught by a fake job. AI-written job scams have doubled, and they are built to hit you exactly when your guard is down.
▸ 0:361.5 million logins, leaked by a vibe-coded app
1.5 million logins were stolen from an app built entirely by AI, where the founder never wrote a single line of code.
▸ 0:56The meeting notetaker that records everyone
The AI notetaker bot that quietly joins your video calls is recording every person on them, and it is getting companies sued. Otter and Fireflies are facing privacy lawsuits right now.
▸ 0:50The slow genius mode: 4x the cost for nothing
The smartest AI mode quietly wastes 4 times the cost on easy work, for no better answer.
▸ 0:38“Act like an expert” does nothing
"Act like a world-class expert" does nothing. Wharton tested that line on six AI tools, 25 tries each: zero boost, and on some it made the answers worse.