About whether AI agents wrongly deleting files from bad guesses is a fundamental flaw.
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About whether AI agents wrongly deleting files from bad guesses is a fundamental flaw.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
It seems fundamental, because it’s isomorphic to the hallucination problem which is nowhere near solved. Basically, LLMs have no meta-cognition, no confidence in their output, and no sense that they’re on ”thin ice”. There’s no difference between hard facts, fiction, educated guesses and hallucinations.
Humans who are good at reasoning tend to ”feel” the amount of shaky assumptions they’ve made and then after some steps it becomes ridiculous because the certainty converges towards 0.
You could train them to stop early but that’s not the desired outcome. You want to stop only after making too many guesses, which is only possible if you know when you’re guessing.