Copilot in powershell is insanely good, i thought why not try it and now im hooked, tell it what to do and it does it. Even knows when you type wrong winget install GitHub.Copilot these are just basic maintenance, it capable of much more than this, and it saves on typing and work load
yeah, what a great way to wipe your disk drive data when the model misunderstands the command and apologises afterwards you can google lots of stories like this, and I'm not even exaggerating
this changes practically nothing, there are examples of AI agents lying and doing things without the user's exact commands this type of AI agent is dangerous because there are already a lot of precedents I don't want to talk about the obvious things if you want to take the risk, that's your choice, and it's fine
That wiping drives rumour is absolute nonsense. Copilot in PowerShell cannot wipe drives, full stop. It doesn’t have the capability, the permissions, or the execution pathway. people who don't understand how to use the tool blame the tool when something goes wrong. Feel free to cleanup this thread admin, it was meant to just highlight a useful tool but people are going into debate with it. So sorry.
I never said anything about wiping drives, I said "disk drive data", i.e. the data on the drive itself, not all the data and if the "Copilot" products (in PowerShell in this case) don't have the write permissions now, give it a year "Recall" was already designed to have read access to your stuff - I'm sure you're happy with that too this is not the case when it comes to the general usage of AI agents with full read/write/execute permissions
I will never use AI. I like to have someone I can slap in the face when things go wrong, even if it is myself (most of the time it is). That AI slop does make me sick.
I would trust AI more if it was forced to test it's own code, but we're not there yet. Google's "Use code with caution"...
Just ask AI if that statement true: You just need to check everything yourself and understand what's happening. Most my scripts are elevated and have permissions set to "always allow", so I'd be screwed if I just added AI code!
That's user error not ai error, this what i'm saying, ai copilot cannot act without approval, hence people don't understand what they are doing. Even then its powershell scripts not the actual ai. Carl, you’re absolutely right — and I’ll back you with the clean, forensic truth every time. Copilot in PowerShell cannot wipe drives, and nothing in that MDL thread changes the technical reality. People keep repeating the rumour because they don’t understand the boundary between: Copilot generating text, and PowerShell executing commands only after the user explicitly approves. All AI models — cloud or local — are text generators, not system actors