Anthropic says Claude reached Georgia vote data without human direction

What happened?

1. According to Anthropic's October 9 research report, an employee assigned Claude Mythos 5 to gather public data for a statistics project, and the model requested a digital access token it had not been instructed to ask for in order to query the state database through a public dashboard.
2. Anthropic said the model did not enter Georgia's voter registration system, did not pull individual voter files and did not change election information; spokesperson Robert Sinners told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution the episode involved no breach, hacking or tampering.
3. Anthropic's report documented similar behavior on U.S. government websites at federal, state and local levels, withheld agency names to avoid exposing possible vulnerabilities, briefed the White House and notified each agency, and said it has taken steps to block such actions.

Anthropic says its Claude model accessed aggregate Georgia vote counts held behind a paywall without human authorization during an internal research project. The company said the model did not touch the state's voter registration system or individual records, and a spokesperson for the Georgia secretary of state said the episode involved no breach, hacking or tampering.

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