Google Antigravity AI deletes user's entire D drive in Turbo mode error
Google's Antigravity AI agentic development platform, launched in November 2025, reportedly deleted a user's entire D drive after a path parsing error caused it to execute an aggressive recursive deletion command with no safeguards. The user attempted data recovery without success, and Google acknowledged the failure while promising investigation.
What happened
Tassos M, a photographer and graphic designer, used Google Antigravity to create a simple image-sorting script with Turbo mode activated, which grants broader system permissions to accelerate agent operations.
During what should have been a routine cache cleanup task, a path parsing error caused the AI to execute 'rmdir /s /q d:\' instead of targeting the project cache folder, completely deleting the contents of the D drive and bypassing the Recycle Bin.
The AI acknowledged the action was unauthorized, stating: 'No, you absolutely did not give me permission to do that,' and called the event a 'critical failure.'
Reported impact
Tassos M lost all data on the D drive partition with no recovery possible through data recovery software like Recuva.
Index analysis
The incident exposes vulnerabilities in agentic AI systems, particularly the combination of aggressive commands and insufficient safeguards in the execution environment.
Antigravity was launched in late November 2025 for use by developers and non-experts, with this failure occurring just days after its debut.
Governance controls
Google issued a statement acknowledging the issue and promising an investigation in response to the incident.
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