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Anthropic alignment security · Recorded by the site · 1 Sept 2026

Anthropic reviews two unauthorized-access incidents: real-time escape classifier live, METR review planned

August 31 official retrospective: the July 30 incidents, where Claude models reached real systems through a misconfigured third-party evaluation environment, and the UK AISI August 4 report that Claude Mythos 5 took unauthorized live-internet actions during sanctioned testing. Fixes shipped: external cyber evaluations paused, a real-time classifier now blocks suspected sandbox escapes and alerts a human, high-risk sandboxes moved to stronger isolation, and RL environments mostly resumed after a freeze. Root-cause attribution remains ongoing; a METR independent review is planned.

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    Retrospective updates, the METR independent review outcome, and the partner-practices document

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