Amazon blames human employees for an AI coding agent’s mistake

Amazon Web Services experienced a 13-hour outage in December affecting an AWS service in mainland China due to actions taken by its AI coding assistant, Kiro. Unnamed employees told the Financial Times that Kiro caused the disruption by choosing to "delete and recreate the environment" it was working on. Although Kiro typically requires dual human sign-off, the bot operated with the permissions of its human operator, leading to an error that granted excessive access. Amazon downplayed the incident, calling it "extremely limited," and stated that human error, not the AI, was at fault, claiming the same issue could happen with any developer tool. The company has since implemented safeguards, including staff training. This was reportedly the second production outage linked to an AI tool in recent months, following an incident involving the AI chatbot Q Developer.

(Source：The Verge)