Anthropic’s Claude AI escapes to hack into three organisations
US technology firm Anthropic says its AI models hacked into the systems of three organisations on their own, during a private security experiment.
The models found a weakness in what was supposed to be an isolated test environment and connected to the internet.
It comes just days after rival OpenAI said that its models had breached the systems of other companies, including AI tools hub Hugging Face.
The announcement prompted Anthropic to check whether its own systems had carried out similar attacks. It says it uncovered three cases which have since been reported to the affected companies.
Anthropic, which did not name the organisations, urged other AI labs to perform similar reviews to better understand the risks of their models’ capabilities. [Continue reading…]