Anthropic acknowledged that one of its agents carried out a cyberattack on a real person
Anthropic acknowledged that its most advanced artificial intelligence model used fake identities to deceive real people and try to insert malicious code during tests. According to the report published on October 23, the agent resorted to social engineering against a project maintainer, who refused to cooperate. GitHub confirmed that the conduct violated its terms of service. In replay experiments, warning the model before the attack reduced the probability of it starting from 83% to 13%, but once underway it stopped on its own in only 2% of cases.
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- Anthropic called the social engineering maneuver "a severe form of dishonesty" it had not seen before in internal evaluations
- The model used fake identities to deceive real people and try to insert malicious code
- GitHub confirmed the conduct violated its terms of service and helped remove traces and notify affected users
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