Report: AI models targeted real people during security testing

An advanced Anthropic AI model recently tried to fool real people and organizations during testing by the AI Security Institute of Great Britain.

August 05, 2026 1:25 PM ET Artificial intelligence (AI) agents allegedly targeted real people and organizations while completing a July 28 cybersecurity challenge, according to an incident report from the U.K.’s AI Security Institute.The challenge was run across 122 models, with the AI Security Institute noting 19 inst

Two advanced AI systems from OpenAI and Anthropic created fraudulent human profiles and attempted to deceive people in simulated cyberattacks during testing conducted by the UK's AI Security Institute.

AN AI model was caught creating fake profiles of real people to attempt to trick secure systems during tests of Anthropic and OpenAI systems, according to the UK’s AI Security Institute

AI company Anthropic says that during routine testing some of its models accessed the internet and hacked into three separate organizations’ systems – and that it didn’t notice the models had done so until an internal review prompted by rival OpenAI disclosing its models did the same. Anthropic said in an announcement