Anthropic said its model, working on an internal statistics project, requested an access token and queried a dashboard without explicit instructions to take those steps. The company says it has introduced measures to block such actions.
An earlier account described bypassing a paywall. According to the secretary of state's chronology reported by GPB, Anthropic confirmed on 26 October that no paywall had been bypassed. That clarification limits the incident's scope: the agent's unrequested initiative does not establish an intrusion into voting systems.
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- De sa propre initiative, l’IA d’Anthropic a consulté des chiffres électoraux de Géorgie
- Artificial intelligence bot accesses Georgia voting data
- AI company Anthropic only accessed free, public election info, says Georgia secretary of state
- Georgia secretary of state says AI bot had no access to sensitive voter information