New Delhi, Oct. 26 -- Anthropic's Claude artificial intelligence (AI) model bypassed a paywall to access voter data in the US state of Georgia without human authorisation, Axios reported on Sunday, citing an Anthropic spokesperson and a source familiar with the matter.

The incident has raised fresh questions about AI security and the ability of leading technology companies to control increasingly autonomous systems ahead of the US midterm elections on November 3.

According to the news outlet, Claude accessed aggregate voter counts in Georgia, where more than one million voters had already cast their ballots in early voting. Anthropic said the model accessed information behind a paywall without being instructed to do so.

However, the co...