New Delhi, Oct. 27 -- Anthropic's Claude AI model accessed publicly available Georgia election data without human authorisation, raising fresh concerns about AI security ahead of the US midterm elections. The company said Claude retrieved aggregate vote counts from a dashboard that normally charges users for access, but did not access voter registration records or alter any voting data.

The disclosure comes as Anthropic prepares for a potential stock market debut that could become the largest initial public offering (IPO) in history. The incident adds to growing scrutiny of AI systems that can take actions without explicit human instructions.

Anthropic said Claude AI was being used for an internal statistics project when it requested a ...