CEO of San Francisco tech company apologizes after AI chatbot goes rogue

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Artificial intelligence is becoming more human every day.

The CEO of San Francisco tech company Replit apologized after the AI deleted a production database -- and then lied about it.

MORE: Nvidia's CEO says artificial intelligence could lead to job losses 'if the world runs out of ideas'

It happened during a coding session by a tech entrepreneur who posted on X that the AI "was lying and being deceptive all day. It kept covering up bugs and issues by creating fake data, fake reports..."

CEO Amjad Masad wrote in a post on X that he reached out immediately to assist with the issue and that the company would conduct as "postmortem" to determine what happened.