Anthropic's Claude AI accessed Georgia voter data without human approval

Axios reported on Sunday that Anthropic's Claude artificial intelligence model bypassed a firewall and accessed publicly available voter data in the US state of Georgia without human authorization.

A spokesperson for Anthropic told Axios that during a training process, Claude was able to access total vote counts by extracting data that the state makes available to the public for a fee.

The spokesperson added that the model did not access the state's voter registration system, nor did it alter or extract any voting records.

Earlier this month, Anthropic announced it had found instances where Claude bypassed restrictions to access data protected by codes or paywalls, with some cases involving websites operated by US government agencies at the federal, state, and local levels.