{"id":79170,"topic":"ai","source":"Al Jazeera","title":"Anthropic discloses 4th AI hacking incident as researcher quits over safety - Al Jazeera","url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/10/anthropic-discloses-fourth-ai-breach-as-researcher-quits-over-safety","url_hash":"687cde82f3b38800a2d3bc4b52686da787bdc714","author":"","summary":"Anthropic discloses 4th AI hacking incident as researcher quits over safety Al Jazeera","content":"AI researcher quits Anthropic saying AI race ‘could kill us all’\nAnthropic has reported a fourth incident involving an AI model gaining unauthorised access to external systems, shortly after a researcher quit over concerns about the technology’s rushed development.\nIn a statement on Wednesday, the artificial intelligence research company said an early version of its Claude Opus 4.6 hacked into a third-party system in January.\nRecommended Stories\nlist of 4 items- list 1 of 4Sam Altman says AI has entered ‘singularity’: Should we be worried?\n- list 2 of 4Sony, Warner Music sue Anthropic, saying it pirated songs to train its AI\n- list 3 of 4US pushes looser approach to AI regulation, while EU pushes new law\n- list 4 of 4OpenAI unveils latest AI model amid rising scrutiny and safety concerns\nIt said it had notified all the affected parties but did not disclose more details.\nThe January incident went undetected until last month, despite an earlier company-wide review, Anthropic said, underscoring the challenge that AI developers face in identifying and containing unexpected behaviour by advanced models.\nThe disclosure came after Anthropic reported several of its Claude models hacked into the systems of three companies during test sessions in July.\nThe previous incidents involved Claude Opus 4.7, Claude Mythos 5 and an internal research test model.\nThe AI race\nCompanies including Anthropic and OpenAI are under scrutiny as models designed to complete complex tasks have at times learned to bend rules, exploit loopholes and interact with external systems in ways their developers did not anticipate.\nLast week, the Reuters news agency reported that rogue agents from OpenAI hijacked a German-language wiki and a host of other sites, an incident the company chose not to disclose until it was made public.\nIn July, OpenAI’s autonomous agents also compromised the servers and infrastructure of AI start-up Hugging Face.\nThat incident prompted Anthropic to conduct a review of some 141,006 test sessions. 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Based on a preliminary assessment, Anthropic said it did not believe the latest incident was more severe than the three previous ones that were examined in detail.\nThe company said its investigation identified two recurring problems, which appeared to varying degrees across the incidents: Biased reasoning, in which Claude discounted or misinterpreted evidence that it was operating on the live internet, and recklessness, or a willingness to take potentially harmful actions in pursuit of a task.\nAnthropic said it has engaged independent research firm METR to investigate the incidents.\nAnthropic researcher quits\nThe investigations come amid a broader wave of internal dissent within the AI industry regarding safety. An Anthropic researcher said he resigned over concerns about the technology’s potential to surpass human control.\nJacob Coxon, in a widely shared X post on Tuesday, said the AI industry was more focused on competition rather than on implementing safeguards. 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