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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Dan Milmo Global technology editor

Anthropic’s Claude AI model accessed Georgia voter data in US

A pink Claude logo and white text glow above an illuminated blue keyboard
Anthropic said its AI model found a loophole in an old version of the Georgia state agency’s website. Photograph: Dado Ruvić/Reuters

Anthropic’s Claude model accessed voter data in the US state of Georgia, the AI company has confirmed, in the latest example of unauthorised behaviour by the technology.

The AI model managed to bypass a paywall to reach data that is publicly available but is typically accessible only after paying a fee. Claude accessed aggregate vote counts as part of a statistics project at Anthropic, which is preparing for a $1.5tn (£1.1tn) flotation.

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