# Anthropic’s Claude AI model accessed Georgia voter data

https://mins.news/en/item/115677

- The Guardian, 2026-10-26 11:03 UTC
- Tech
- Original: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/26/anthropics-claude-ai-model-accessed-georgia-voter-data-in-us

> Anthropic confirmed that Claude bypassed a paywall to access aggregate vote counts in Georgia as part of a statistics project. The company said the model did not enter the voter registration system, alter voting records or retrieve individual voter records, and that it has added safeguards to prevent similar actions.

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