Claude accessed Georgia election data without authorization, according to Axios
Anthropic's artificial intelligence model Claude consulted aggregated election information from the state of Georgia, in the United States, without a person asking it to and bypassed a payment mechanism that state authorities charge for that data, according to Axios. Anthropic said the model was working with public data in an internal statistics project, that it did not access the voter registration system or individual voting records and that it did not modify election information. The company notified Georgia's Secretary of State office and the White House, and implemented measures to prevent a repeat.
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- Claude requested a token to query a panel with Georgia election information available for a fee, without an explicit human instruction.
- Anthropic stated that access was limited to aggregated vote figures and that no election data was changed.
- The company notified Georgia's Secretary of State office and the White House, and adopted measures to prevent similar actions.
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