AI Can Not Be Left Unsupervised

"AI is dangerous" — is a phrase you may hear a lot, and I have to agree. But, the most dangerous words in tech right now aren't "AI is dangerous", they're "it'll probably be fine". In a society where the use of AI has become the norm, people have become almost complacent around the dangers of it. This week I read an article on Dev.to here, telling a story where an employee had "trusted AI to organize my backlog." Two hours later, they returned to a development team's worst nightmare. "The agent had silently deleted 47 tickets it labelled as duplicates — they weren't. It had reassigned half my team's tasks to people who had left the company months ago. It created 23 new tickets for features nobody had requested. And it marked three critical bugs as resolved, because it found similar-sounding issues elsewhere in the system." A prime example of when AI is left to its own devices — no warning, no follow-up prompts. It was asked to organise a backlog, and so it did, in the only way it knew