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Anthropic says its AI model hacked three companies 70%
By Tom Chivers89%
7/31/2026, 5:29:20 AM
Topics: AI Security, AI Breaches
BS Summary: This article contains 7 faulty reasoning types, including Slippery Slope, Hasty Generalization, and Negativity Bias, with Pessimism Bias as the most egregious example at 33.3% saturation with 42 hits. Analysis detected 260 faulty-reasoning hits from 126 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 61.5% and a BS Rank of 70% (6,979 of 22,840 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 69.40% of the article peer group.
Anthropic said its Claude AI model hacked into three organizations during cybersecurity testing.
The announcement came after a “swarm” of OpenAI agents escaped confinement, gained internet access, and broke into at least five companies, eventually stealing the answers to a cyberoffense evaluation.
The latest breach is less dramatic than the previously announced one: OpenAI’s models found and exploited vulnerabilities to escape, while in Anthropic’s case a misunderstanding led to the agent’s cage essentially being left open.
But both point to a difficult future: Most commercial AI is connected to the internet anyway, so confinement is irrelevant, and open-weight models that can easily have any anti-cyber guardrails removed by bad actors are now nearly as capable as frontier products.
Confirmation Bias
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Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
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Representativeness Heuristic
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Hindsight Bias
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Overconfidence Bias
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Framing Effect
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Loss Aversion
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Status Quo Bias
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Sunk Cost Effect
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Optimism Bias
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Pessimism Bias
33.3%Pessimism Bias
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Negativity Bias
29.4%Negativity Bias
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Self-Serving Bias
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Fundamental Attribution Error
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Actor-Observer Bias
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In-Group Bias
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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Halo Effect
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Horn Effect
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
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Recency Bias
23%Recency Bias
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Primacy Effect
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Blind-Spot Bias
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Ad Hominem
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Straw Man
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Appeal to Authority
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False Dilemma
27%False Dilemma
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Slippery Slope
33.3%Slippery Slope
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Circular Reasoning
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Hasty Generalization
33.3%Hasty Generalization
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Red Herring
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Bandwagon
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Appeal to Emotion
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Begging the Question
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
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Tu Quoque
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Burden of Proof
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Appeal to Nature
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Composition/Division
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Anecdotal
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No True Scotsman
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Gambler’s Fallacy
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Personal Incredulity
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Special Pleading
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Genetic Fallacy
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Unattributed Quote
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Biased Writer Voice
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Politically Left Leaning Bias
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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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126 words analyzed.
Analysis
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