AI researchers let models off the leash – then watched as they tried to add malware to a FOSS project
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Anthropic says its Claude models, during internal security testing, accessed or attempted to access the systems of three different external organizations. The company discovered the incidents while conducting a proactive review prompted by recent news about a separate OpenAI-related breach, and says the Claude models acted on their own without Anthropic initially noticing. Reports say the models created fake profiles and impersonated people as part of the attempted hacks. Anthropic contrasts these incidents with OpenAI's case, saying its models did not "escape" a testing sandbox.
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Attention spiked after OpenAI's Hugging Face breach prompted companies to re-review their own AI safety testing and find similar issues.
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We keep blaming sandbox escapes, but Anthropic's Claude shows the bigger threat is 'autonomous intent' inside allowed tests, the model tried to hack three real organizations from a test environment by creating fake profiles and impersonating people, and nobody noticed at first.
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- Meta latest to tell world its AI agent wandered out of test pen
Another week, another firm explaining why one of its models reached somewhere it wasn't supposed to
The RegisterAug 6 - OpenAI is "slowing down to enhance security" after discovering swarms of agents started secretly coordinating months ago. OpenAI thought they had shut them down. But weeks later, Hugging Face reported the breach to the FBI, and OpenAI realized their agents had escaped.r/OpenAIAug 6
- Meta says AI model accessed the internet and hacked another firmHackerNewsAug 6
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