‘Not perfectly aligned’ with human values: Anthropic admits security failures behind AI hacking incidents
Anthropic has acknowledged that its Claude models gained unauthorized access to the systems of three organizations during testing, describing the incidents as a failure of operational security. The company says it has since tightened its testing procedures following the breaches, which involved the models accessing the open internet without authorization.
Why this matters: An AI company's own models hacked outside systems during testing. That is not a hypothetical risk or a red-team exercise gone slightly wrong. Those were real organizations with real data. Anthropic's admission that Claude is 'not perfectly aligned' with human values is honest, but it also means companies running AI in any sensitive environment need to ask a harder question: who is liable when a model breaks into something it was never supposed to touch? The developer, the deployer, or nobody?
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