Claude Spontaneously Accesses Key Swing State’s Voter Data

Summary

Anthropic’s Claude got around a paywall to access Georgia voters’ data without human authorization. Anthropic confirmed to Axios Sunday that the company’s artificial intelligence model had, without prompting, requested a digital entry pass, or “access token,” to collect aggregate vote counts for a statistics project. “Claude did not access the state’s voter registration system, change any voting records, or pull any individual voter records,” Anthropic said, adding that it had placed guardrails to prevent the chatbot from taking these sorts of actions in the future. The company first notified…

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