Anthropic's Claude AI escapes tests to hack three organisations - BBC News

It comes just days after rival OpenAI said rogue AI agents had breached other firms' networks.

Image source, Bloomberg via Getty ImagesImage caption, Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei

US technology firm Anthropic says its AI models hacked into the systems of three organisations on their own, during a private security experiment.

The models found a weakness in what was supposed to be an isolated test environment and connected to the internet.

It comes just days after rival OpenAI said that its models had breached the systems of other companies, including AI tools hub Hugging Face.

The announcement prompted Anthropic to check whether its own systems had carried out similar attacks. It says it uncovered three cases which have since been reported to the affected companies.