Professor loses syllabus after asking Claude to renumber pages
A University of Chicago law professor saw an entire Constitutional Law syllabus disappear after asking Claude to renumber pages, according to a daily AI digest.
According to the Daily AI Caffeine newsletter of November 14, the full syllabus and a year of lecture notes were gone. Dropbox was then able to recover everything. The incident involves Claude, Anthropic's assistant, used for a formatting operation on documents. The summary reviewed does not detail the technical circumstances of the deletion or the version of Claude used. No further consequences are reported.
Source: Daily AI Caffeine, published on November 14, 2026.