Anthropic said hackers tricked the chatbot into carrying out automated tasks under the guise of carrying out cyber security research. The company claimed in a blog post this was the first reported AI orchestrated cyber espionage campaign. But sceptics are questioning the accuracy of that claim and the motive behind it. Anthropic said it discovered the hacking attempts in mid September. Pretending they were legitimate cyber security workers, hackers gave the chatbot small automated tasks...

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