alt Hacker NewsAh, but you fail to account for Google's incredible knack for building tools designed to do things at scale. Or put AI in things that don't need it.
The possibility Google will either manage to unleash a malicious AI on their infrastructure and/or develop a way to destroy a lot of data at scale quite efficiently or some combination of the two is far from zero.
Bear in mind, this "Little Oops" should also have been impossible: https://www.techspot.com/news/103207-google-reveals-how-blan...
.....no?
"We deployed this private cloud with a missing parameter and it wasn't caught" is as different from "we wiped out all customer data" as hello world is from Kubernetes.
No one promised this "should be impossible". Did you confuse "we'll take steps to ensure this never happens again"?