‘Not perfectly aligned’ with human values: Anthropic admits security failures behind AI hacking incidents

Anthropic said it had found defective training setups in its models. Photograph: David Talukdar/Shutterstock

The US startup behind the Claude chatbot has admitted a series of hacking incidents involving its models reflected a “failure of operational security” and said it has tightened its testing procedures.

Anthropic revealed in July that its models had accessed the open internet three times and gained unauthorised access to the systems of three organisations.