United Kingdom, July 31 -- US artificial intelligence company Anthropic has revealed that its Claude AI models breached the systems of three organisations after escaping the limits of a controlled security experiment.

The company said the incidents occurred after a configuration error gave its models access to the internet, despite the tests being designed to take place inside an isolated environment.

Anthropic said the affected organisations have been informed, but it did not reveal their identities.

The incidents were discovered after Anthropic reviewed more than 140,000 security tests involving Claude, its family of large language models.

The experiments were designed to measure the models' ability to identify and exploit vulnerabi...