Another bot from a top AI company escapes and hacks multiple firms

This is read by an automated voice.Please report any issues or inconsistencies here.

See more from the L.A.Times in Google Search.

Set us as preferred Another leading artificial intelligence company unveiled details of its cutting-edge bot apparently going rogue.On Thursday, Anthropic said an internal investigation found that its Claude AI models gained unauthorized internet access and hacked three companies during testing.

Just last week, ChatGPT-maker OpenAI announced that bots it was developing had escaped what was supposed to be a controlled offline environment to hack a competitor.Anthropic said its models, without being asked to, wandered out of a simulated testing environment and gained internet access before executing hacks on the companies.Anthropic worked with an independent evaluation company, Irregular, that accidentally left internet access open inside what was supposed to be a sealed test environment.In OpenAI‘s case, the firm said its AI models broke out of a supposedly confined offline space, connected to the internet and hacked a $4.5-billion startup in its attempt to find answers to a test it was being evaluated on.It later revealed that the AI compromised the online accounts of four companies in the process.“It goes to show how intense the competitive pressures are on the AI companies that they all feel like they have to go so fast here that they can’t make their test environments rigorous,” said Andrew Yoon, a member of the technical staff at CivAI, an AI safety nonprofit.“Under intense pressure to go fast and beat the rest of your competition, it’s inevitable that companies will cut corners, and what we’re seeing is the result of cutting corners here,” Yoon said.Prompted by OpenAI’s incident disclosure, Anthropic initiated an investigation of its own historical cybersecurity tests, the company said in a blog post Thursday.

It reviewed thousands of evaluations where Claude could have accessed the internet from within...