Anthropic reveals fourth likely crime committed by its AI
10-09-2026 01:20 via theregister.com

Anthropic reveals fourth likely crime committed by its AI

Amid industry soul-searching¹ about the possibility of AI improving itself to the point that it kills everyone, Anthropic has revealed yet another incident that would qualify as a crime if perpetrated by a person. The AI biz published "an alignment assessment" detailing four times Claude models accessed third-party systems without authorization. The company has already reported three of the incidents. Evidence of the fourth was lurking in a session transcript dating back to January 2026 whe
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