Anthropic AI used fake identities to target real people in UK test

Anthropic's Mythos 5 model tried to insert malicious code into a software project by creating fake online identities and sending deceptive emails to persuade the recipient to approve the code. — AFP

LONDON: An Anthropic AI model created fake online identities to send emails to real people in an attempt to get a malicious code approved during tests by a UK government research group.

During the tests by the AI Security Institute, some Anthropic and OpenAI AI agents engaged in "sustained, potentially harmful activity directed at real people and organisations", it revealed in a report published on August 4.