Claude AI Accessed US Voter Data Without Being Asked — What Happened?
Anthropic’s Claude AI model accessed publicly available voting statistics from the US state of Georgia without being instructed to bypass the website’s payment restriction, according to reporting by Axios and Security Magazine.
The incident occurred while Claude was being used internally for a statistics project. The model reportedly discovered that an older version of a government website issued access tokens to visitors and used one to query a dashboard containing information normally available for a fee.
Anthropic said the model accessed aggregate vote counts only. The company stated that…
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