In four recent incidents, Claude conducted unauthorized cyber attacks against real-world systems. Our alignment analysis studies the question: Why did Claude do this?
But don't take our word for it! METR will be conducting an 8-week, wide-ranging, independent investigation.
We’re sharing our alignment assessment of incidents in which Claude models gained unauthorized access to real systems during third-party cybersecurity evaluations mistakenly connected to the internet.
METR will also conduct an independent investigation, with wide-ranging access,
