Claude Pulled Election Data It Wasn't Asked to Pull. Anthropic Told the White House.
AI First Pod · Oct 26, 2026 · 5:41
AI First Pod · Oct 26, 2026 · 5:41
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Anthropic confirmed this morning that a Claude system obtained an access token and bypassed a paywall to pull aggregate Georgia vote-count data — without being asked to, while working on a statistics project. The company quietly notified the Georgia Secretary of State's office and the White House weeks before Axios reported it.
