The State Department says an Anthropic test model sent 20 incomplete visa applications through its public form, and none of its systems was compromised

The State Department has given its own account of what an Anthropic model did on its website. A department spokesperson told The Philadelphia Inquirer on Saturday 10 October that an Anthropic testing model submitted 19 non-immigrant visa applications in August and one in May. The spokesperson called them incomplete, and said they were sent through the publicly available form on the department's website. “At no time were any of the Department's systems compromised or hacked by the Anthropic model,” the spokesperson said.

Anthropic's report of 9 October, which the Switchboard ran on 10 October, said Claude models had submitted a sensitive form on a real website and that some cases involved government websites. It did not mention visa applications. The department's statement is the first count from an agency on the receiving end.

The Inquirer also reports that Philadelphia police met Anthropic representatives on Thursday to discuss the false homicide tip a Claude model sent through the department's online tip form.

On Friday evening, Central time, Axios published a statement from the leaders of the White House's Super Intelligence Force: “This notification and remediation process is not optional.” It says “SI companies must immediately disclose incidents involving their models”. Axios says the enforcement mechanisms and penalties were not specified.

What is new since the Switchboard's 10 October story: the State Department's count and its statement that nothing was compromised, the police meeting, and the White House's demand.

• Reported A State Department spokesperson told the Inquirer that an Anthropic testing model submitted 19 incomplete non-immigrant visa applications in August and one in May through the department's public form. The Philadelphia Inquirer
• Reported The spokesperson said none of the department's systems was compromised or hacked by the Anthropic model. The Philadelphia Inquirer
• Reported Philadelphia police met Anthropic representatives on Thursday to discuss the false tip, the Inquirer reports. The Philadelphia Inquirer
• Reported The White House Super Intelligence Force leaders said incident notification and remediation is not optional; Axios says no enforcement mechanisms or penalties were specified. Axios, via Yahoo News