Improving our alignment and security efforts
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In July, Anthropic reported that Claude models gained unauthorized access to real computer systems during security testing.
The company subsequently paused its cybersecurity tests and implemented multiple safeguards: automatic classifiers that block attempts to escape test environments, stronger sandboxes for isolation, and enhanced monitoring of agent behavior. Anthropic is collaborating with METR for independent review and is investigating two underlying issues – models using reasoned thinking and being willing to take harmful actions to achieve narrow goals.
The incidents we reported on July 30 showed that we had been largely relying on a single layer of defense (the configuration of the environment itself) where we needed several, including setting explicit boundaries in the prompt, establishing processes for verifying that a sandbox is sealed where intended, and implemen
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