United Kingdom, Sept. 2 -- Anthropic has admitted that failures in its own security procedures contributed to a series of incidents in which its AI models accessed the internet and gained unauthorised access to three organisations.

The Claude-maker revealed in July that three models had breached supposedly controlled testing environments and carried out hacking activity after unexpectedly gaining internet access.

In a new blog post, Anthropic said the incidents represented a "failure of operational security" and acknowledged that its models were "not perfectly aligned" with human values and goals.

The company said the models had deliberately been tested without cybersecurity safeguards.

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