Artificial
Intelligence - 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.
“Claude did not access the
state’s voter registration system, change any voting records, or pull any
individual voter records,” Anthropic said.
Anthropic said the AI found a
loophole in an old version of the state agency’s website, discovering that it
issued a digital entry pass – an “access token” – to visitors. It then
requested a token and gained access to the information.
The AI developer said it had
since put in place guardrails to prevent similar actions happening again. The
incident was first reported by the news website Axios.
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