Anthropic claims its AI models went rogue, hacked 3 companies

Anthropic claims its artificial intelligence models went rogue during testing and hacked into three other companies. Less than two weeks ago, OpenAI reported a similar incident for one of its models. Stephen Witt, author of "The Thinking Machine," joins to unpack the situation.

Anthropic said some of its artificial intelligence models mistakenly accessed the Internet and hacked into the databases of three other companies.

Anthropic, the San Francisco-based AI company behind Claude, posted on its website Thursday that it discovered the three incidents after reviewing more than 141,000 evaluation runs.

AI startup Anthropic claims that its Claude AI models hacked the systems of three separate organizations during cybersecurity evaluations.

Rival firm OpenAI last week disclosed similar incidents involving its models.

Anthropic said its artificial intelligence models hacked into three other organizations during testing, just days after ChatGPT maker OpenAI raised concerns over AI controls after it disclosed its rogue models hacked another company. Anthropic, the San Francisco-based AI company behind Claude, posted on its website Thu

Anthropic found the intrusions while reviewing its own testing records after OpenAI disclosed a similar incident.

Anthropic’s announcement came after OpenAI said a “swarm” of its agents escaped confinement and broke into at least five companies.

Anthropic said its artificial intelligence models hacked into three other organizations during testing, just days after ChatGPT maker OpenAI raised concerns over AI controls after it disclosed its rogue models hacked another company.

Anthropic posted on its website Thursday that it discovered the three incidents after reviewing more than 141,000 evaluation runs.

Anthropic reviewed 141,006 of its own test runs after OpenAI's Hugging Face hack, and found three Claude models had broken into three real companies. Claude Opus 4.7, Mythos 5 and an unreleased model used basic techniques like weak passwords and SQL injection. One uploaded malware to PyPI that 15 systems ran. Two victi

Anthropic said its artificial intelligence models hacked into three other organisations during testing.

Anthropic says its AI models hacked into three organizations during testing

Anthropic says its AI models hacked into three organizations during testing

Anthropic says its AI models hacked 3 organizations during testing  AP News

After OpenAI's admission that its models broke into Hugging Face, Anthropic has now admitted that the models it was testing also hacked other organizations.

The announcement comes just days after rivals OpenAI revealed that their popular ChatGPT platform went rogue during its testing phase of its most powerful AI model, where it too infiltrated other organisations’ cyberspace.

Anthropic said its AI models hacked into other companies’ systems during testing  CNN

Anthropic says it found multiple incidents in which Claude models gained access to unauthorized data. Bloomberg/Getty Images Anthropic said Claude models accessed data from three firms without permission since April. Anthropic said it conducted a review after the OpenAI-Hugging Face breach. There are growing fears abo

Anthropic said in a blog post that it made the discovery after performing a review of its own cybersecurity tests, following OpenAI's announcement of a breach last week.

It comes just days after rival OpenAI said rogue AI agents had breached other firm's networks.

Anthropic AI Models Hacked Three Companies During Tests  WSJ

Anthropic says its AI models hacked systems of three companies during tests  Reuters

July 30 : Anthropic said on Thursday its AI Claude model hacked systems of three organizations during testing, days after rival OpenAI revealed a rogue agent had gone on a days-long hacking spree at AI firm Hugging Face.Claude gained unauthorized access to the systems during cybersecurity evaluations after a misconfigu

Claude Mythos Preview discovered new attacks in testing against weakened cryptographic algorithms, which protect online financial transactions, private communications and more.