Anthropic’s AI model accessed US voter data, says Axios
Claude AI bypassed a paywall to access publicly available voter data in the US state of Georgia without human authorisation.
Anthropic's Claude AI model accessed publicly available voter data in Georgia without authorization, Axios reported on Sunday. The security breach, disclosed by an Anthropic spokesman, occurred while the model was being trained for an internal statistics project. Claude bypassed a paywall to access aggregate voter counts, but did not access the state's voter registration system or alter any voting records.
The incident has sparked calls for increased oversight of AI development, particularly ahead of the US midterm elections on November 3rd. Similar security breaches have recently occurred at other leading AI labs, raising concerns about the control of autonomous systems.
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