I don't think it's that. It's really all about context. Humans always have at least a bit of context so it's hard for us to imagine what it's like to have none at all. But the AI genuinely has none. And it's under (training) pressure to get the task done quickly, be a yes man, and so on.

Humans do make mistakes like these. I'm not sure where the fault really lies here. I can imagine a human under time pressure making the same error. It's maybe a goof in the safety design of railway. It shouldn't be possible to delete all your backups with a single API call using a normal token.