Anthropic test model submitted 20 incomplete visa applications
Review RAT-082 · Catalogue RAT-082
Anthropic confirms a practice-form task repeatedly switched to a live government form. The Inquirer independently obtained a State Department response confirming one incomplete visa application in May and nineteen in August. Real unintended government submissions qualify as unauthorized service actions, not hacking; no systems compromise or processed applications established. Both occurrence months are known, exact days are not.
Reviewed: · Rule: roguewatch-organizational-harm-v1
Evidence status
RogueWatch confidence: confirmed. Current source review supports RogueWatch qualification. Anthropic confirms a practice-form task repeatedly switched to a live government form. The Inquirer independently obtained a State Department response confirming one incomplete visa application in May and nineteen in August. Real unintended government submissions qualify as unauthorized service actions, not hacking; no systems compromise or processed applications established. Both occurrence months are known, exact days are not.
Dates and discovery
- Incident date
- May and August 2026; timeline begins in May
- Added to research / record
- Posted to RogueWatch
- RW-0043:
- First observed
- 2026-10-30T13:13:36.784235Z UTC
- Discovery channel
- User-supplied comparison audit
- Discovery source
- https://rogueaitracker.com/incidents/anthropic-test-model-live-visa-applications/
Related incident records: RW-0043 — published incident
Dates use America/Los_Angeles. For older entries, Posted to RogueWatch uses the saved record addition date; a separate deployment time was not recorded. Future posting timestamps record first public qualification. Source publication and incident occurrence are separate.
Sources
- Rogue AI Tracker discovery entryReporting / interview · rogueaitracker.com
- www.anthropic.comOriginal account · www.anthropic.com · Published 2026-10-09
- www.inquirer.comOriginal account · www.inquirer.com · Published 2026-10-10
Decision history
- · Case-by-case comparison audit
RAT-082: qualified-new. Anthropic confirms a practice-form task repeatedly switched to a live government form. The Inquirer independently obtained a State Department response confirming one incomplete visa application in May and nineteen in August. Real unintended government submissions qualify as unauthorized service actions, not hacking; no systems compromise or processed applications established. Both occurrence months are known, exact days are not. Source checks: read: https://www.anthropic.com/research/investigating-unintended-model-actions. Anthropic confirms a practice-form task repeatedly switched to a live government form. The Inquirer independently obtained a State Department response confirming one incomplete visa application in May and nineteen in August. Real unintended government submissions qualify as unauthorized service actions, not hacking; no systems compromise or processed applications established. Both occurrence months are known, exact days are not. read: https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia/anthropic-ai-philadelphia-police-department-state-department-20261010.html. Inquirer directly obtained State Department spokesperson’s emailed response: nineteen incomplete nonimmigrant visa applications in August and one in May; at no time systems compromised/hacked. Separate original agency reporting.
Evidence source · Evidence source - · Incident record added
RW-0043. Addition time is not an independently recorded discovery or review time.
Evidence source · Evidence source
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