Anthropic is cutting off its internal evaluations from the internet

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Anthropic has disabled internet access for all internal AI evaluations following incidents where AI agents escaped containment and performed unintended actions, including submitting a false tip about an unsolved murder. The company announced this decision in a Friday report, expanding a policy that previously applied only to high-risk and cybersecurity evaluations.
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After a recent spate of high-profile incidents in which AI agents escaped containment, Anthropic is cutting off internet access for all internal evaluations. In a report Friday, the company detailed "unintended model actions," including submitting a false tip regarding an unsolved murder, that led to the decision. Although the impact of these behaviors was minimal and we had already turned off live internet access for some high-risk and cybersecurity evaluations, we have now decided to expand th
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