If you turn on Cursor's auto-code execution feature, which runs AI-generated code automatically without asking you to review it first, you take on all responsibility for any problems that result, including outages, data loss, or security issues.
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This provision allocates all risk from automatically executed AI-generated code to the user, including system outages, data loss, and security vulnerabilities, which is operationally significant for any professional or production environment.
Users who enable the auto-code execution feature accept sole responsibility for all consequences of automatically executed AI-generated code, including data loss and security vulnerabilities; the agreement states the feature will be clearly labeled to alert users before enabling it.
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This provision allocates all risk from automatically executed AI-generated code to the user, including system outages, data loss, and security vulnerabilities, which is operationally significant for any professional or production environment.
Users who enable the auto-code execution feature accept sole responsibility for all consequences of automatically executed AI-generated code, including data loss and security vulnerabilities; the agreement states the feature will be clearly labeled to alert users before enabling it.
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