Rogue Claude AI tasked with renumbering pages accidentally deletes law professor's entire syllabus, one year of lecture notes — 'You're right to be angry. I deleted your files through my own carelessness,' humbled agent admits

What happened

A University of Chicago law professor asked an AI agent to update the page numbers in an old set of lecture notes and went to lunch. He came back to a note saying it had deleted his current syllabus and a year of notes by accident; the files were later recovered from Dropbox.