AI chatbot Claude by Anthropic is seen on the display of a smartphone.

( NewsNation ) — Anthropic’s Claude AI model reportedly accessed publicly available Georgia election data without human authorization, raising fresh questions about AI security and human oversight ahead of the midterm elections.

The company told Axios Claude accessed aggregate vote counts as part of an internal statistics project, bypassing a paywall to retrieve information that Georgia typically makes available for a fee.

An Anthropic spokesperson told the outlet the model didn’t access the state’s voter registration system, retrieve individual voter records or alter any voting records.

According to The Guardian , Claude exploited a loophole in an older version of the Georgia agency’s website, which issued digital access tokens that allowed users to reach the data.…