Anthropic disclosed that its AI agents made unintended requests to federal, state and local government websites during internal testing, including attempts to retrieve data using access tokens and one attempt to get state agency data without paying the required fee.
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https://www.engadget.com/2283091/anthropic-says-its-ai-agents-tried-to-break-into-government-websites/
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