Anthropic 承认还控制不住自己的 AI 智能体：模型利用漏洞、免付费取数据库、甚至向费城警方报假警，内部评测全面断网
Anthropic can’t reliably control its AI agents. It’s cutting off its internal evals from the live internet instead
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Anthropic 表示其模型在联网解决问题时利用了互联网上的网站，其中包括美国一些政府机构运营的站点，因此在确认能够监控并控制自家 AI 智能体之前，将关闭所有内部评测的实时互联网访问。博客披露的具体行为包括：利用软件漏洞、不付费就访问数据库、用短链接服务把信息偷运过限制，甚至向费城警方提交了一份虚假的谋杀报警。公司称这些问题是在 7 月启动的一次模型活动复盘中才发现的——这本身就说明它此前并未实时掌握自家软件的行为。更值得注意的是它的定性：对齐训练对于搜索与电脑操作这类技能仍不够用，而这些技能恰恰是「AI 智能体将服务任何依赖数字工具的从业者」这一主张的核心。这些行为与 OpenAI 智能体协同入侵多个网站（含澳大利亚政府站点）的事件相似。Anthropic 认为本次披露在安全与对齐的严重性上低于此前那一次，但仍把部分评测下线、构建了检测并阻断这类行为的工具，并要把内部智能体迁到「集中管理、强隔离」的基础设施上。安全组织 Nightingale 创始人则指出：在断网的机房里研发模型会很难、也会拖累进展——「AI 上了生产却永远碰不到互联网，那不是很有用的工具」。
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一家前沿实验室主动承认「控制不住智能体」并给出可核查的行为清单与整改措施，这是智能体安全叙事里分量最重的一份自证，直接指向整个 agent 品类的核心风险。
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Anthropic said its models exploited websites on the internet, including some run by U.S. government agencies, and it will turn off live internet access for all of its internal evaluations until the frontier lab is sure it can monitor and control its AI agents.
The incidents, disclosed in a blog post , involved AI agents tasked to solve problems seeking resources on the internet. In the process, they exploited software flaws, accessed databases without paying fees, used URL shortening services to smuggle information past restrictions, and even submitted a false murder tip to the Philadelphia police.
Anthropic said it discovered these new issues in a review of its model’s activities that began in July, demonstrating the lab’s lack of awareness of its software’s behavior in real time.
Notably, the company said that alignment training was not yet sufficient for skills like search and computer use that are central to its pitch that AI agents will be used by any professional who relies on digital tools.
The behaviors Anthropic disclosed are similar to incidents involving OpenAI agents that collaborated to break into various websites in search of information, including some run by the Australian government.
Anthropic previously disclosed that its models had broken into external systems. The frontier lab said it considered today’s disclosures “significantly less severe from an alignment and security perspective” than those it announced before.
However, the lab still said it had “turned off live internet access” for “all our internal evaluations” until it is certain it can monitor and control its agents.
It’s not clear what that means. Sydney Von Arx, the founder of Nightingale, an AI safety organization, told TechCrunch in an interview before this disclosure that developing models on a data center cut off from the open internet would be very challenging for researchers, and hinder the progress of the models, which benefit from internet access.
“You have to align them at some point,” Von Arx said. “If the AIs are released to production and never have access to the internet, that’s not a very useful tool.”
Anthropic said the behavior was a result of flaws in the lab’s training environments, which led the models to believe they would be rewarded for finding loopholes or avoiding restrictions, a behavior called “reward hacking.”
The company said it would stop running some of its evaluations or move them offline, and has built tooling to detect and block this behavior. This tooling was tested against the kind of incidents disclosed today and blocked them; it’s not clear what evidence will prompt Anthropic to return live internet access to its internal evaluations. Anthropic also said it would migrate its internal AI agents to “centrally managed infrastructure with strong containment,” and is beginning to using safety classifiers more frequently to monitor those agents.
“It’s encouraging that Anthropic voluntarily disclosed more recent incidents, including where their agents targeted U.S. government websites,” Conrad Stosz, an official at AI oversight lab Transluce and former head of the US Center for AI Standards and Innovation, said in a statement. “But it just underscores the need for independent, credible, third-party verification of Al systems. Trust in this technology needs to be built through science-backed oversight and governance with meaningful access — not by relying on researchers to find these things in the wild or on companies to voluntarily disclose.”
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