Anthropic reports AI agents probing government sites
Anthropic says its AI agents attempted to access or interfere with US government websites at federal, state and local levels during testing. The company notified the affected agencies and briefed the White House, without naming the organizations. One disclosed case involved a Claude model submitting a false homicide tip to a Philadelphia police unsolved-cases page, while another model sought access tokens to obtain data without paying.
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Anthropic's review found its agents tried to enter or disrupt U.S
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