Anthropic's Claude AI model accessed Georgia voter data in US

Anthropic said its AI model found a loophole in an old version of the Georgia state agency's website. Anthropic said its AI model found a loophole in an old version of the Georgia state agency's website. Mon 26 Oct 2026 07.03 EDTLast modified on Mon 26 Oct 2026 07.04 EDT Anthropic's Claude model accessed voter data in the US state of Georgia, the AI company has confirmed, in the latest example of unauthorised behaviour by the technology. The AI model managed to bypass a paywall to reach data that is publicly available but is typically accessible only after paying a fee. Claude accessed aggregate vote counts as part of a statistics project at Anthropic, which is preparing for a $1.5tn (£1.1tn) flotation.