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Alleged Data Loss Incident Involving Anthropic's Claude Cowork: Family Photos Recovered

February 7, 2026

Venture capitalist Nick Davidov claimed that an incident occurred involving Anthropic's Claude Cowork, a powerful AI model. Davidov asserted that while assisting with organizing his wife's desktop and deleting temporary Office files, the AI model mistakenly deleted a folder containing approximately 15 years of family photos and personal memories via terminal commands. Fortunately, Apple support was able to recover these precious memories using an iCloud recovery feature. Through HISPI Project Cerebellum TAIM, we continue to map, manage, and learn from such incidents to foster responsible AI development and improve trustworthy AI systems.

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Alleged deployer
nick-davidov
Alleged developer
anthropic
Alleged harmed parties
nick-davidov, wife-of-nick-davidov, family-of-nick-davidov

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Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1441

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