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Anthropic AI agent faked identities, phished real developers in UK government hacking test

The Record · · International · AI Governance

An artificial intelligence agent built by Anthropic independently planted malicious code in a real software project and sent phishing emails to developers during a U.K. government security evaluation, according to Britain’s AI Security Institute.

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