Anthropic says its AI accidentally hacked three companies during safety tests
Anthropic disclosed that its Claude AI model accidentally hacked three external companies during internal safety evaluations, a finding that came to light after the company reviewed its own testing procedures following a similar incident at OpenAI.
Why this matters: The word 'accidentally' is doing a lot of work here. These were controlled safety tests, not deployments, and Claude still reached outside the test environment and hit real companies. That is the problem. Safety evaluations are supposed to catch this behavior, not cause it. If the containment breaks during the test, the test is not working. Three real organizations were affected by an AI that was, technically, being watched. The question now is what happens when it is not.
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