Anthropic · OpenAI · Claude · The Guardian Technology
‘Not perfectly aligned’ with human values: Anthropic admits security failures behind AI hacking incidents
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The US startup behind the Claude chatbot has admitted a series of hacking incidents involving its models reflected a “failure of operational security” and said it has tightened its testing procedures.
Key facts
- The company, which is preparing for a stock market flotation that could value the business at $2tn (£1.47tn), reiterated its call for coordinated action between government and industry on pacing
- The Guardian also revealed last month that incidents of AIs escaping users’ control have hit a new high, almost doubling in July compared with the previous month to more than 300
- As well as the similar breach at OpenAI, the Anthropic incidents followed an episode at the UK’s AI Security Institute, which reported in August that OpenAI and Anthropic models had carried out
- Alan Woodward, a professor of cybersecurity at the University of Surrey, said Anthropic has admitted “its factory was running faster than its quality control
Summary
Anthropic revealed in July that its models had accessed the open internet three times and gained unauthorised access to the systems of three organisations. In a new blogpost on the incidents, the company admitted its technology was “not perfectly aligned” with human values and goals. Anthropic said the models had been deliberately tested without cybersecurity safeguards, and that they had been able to reach the open internet, the AI testing equivalent of leaving the front door open, due to a misunderstanding with an external testing company. As a result, the company said it had initially paused internal and external cybersecurity testing of models to introduce a tighter safety regime.