India, Feb. 8 -- A Bay Area venture capitalist has flagged the potential pitfalls of using artificial intelligence for organisational tasks, claiming that Anthropic's Claude Cowork deleted 15 years worth of memories from his wife's computer.

Nick Davidov said in an X post that Anthropic's desktop agent was tasked with organising his wife's desktop. Instead, it deleted a folder with 15 years of photographs and mementoes.

Davidov, the co-founder of Davidovs Venture Collective (DVC), took to X to talk about his experience with Claude Cowork - which Fortune magazine has described as "a general-purpose AI agent that can manipulate, read, and analyze files on a user's computer, as well as create new files."

Davidov said that he asked Claude ...