Anthropic's unreleased model submits visa applications

Anthropic's unreleased model submits visa applications Epistemic status: recently disclosed event, so more may come out. The facts are from Anthropic's report, a State Department spokesperson quoted by Axios and the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the White House statement published by Axios; the count of 20 is my sum of the spokesperson's two numbers; the interpretation is mine. AI use: research and fact-checking (including a read-only look at the DS-160 landing page), source links, footnotes, grammar, light phrasing. I stumbled upon the fact that an Anthropic model, during testing, submitted 20 non-immigrant visa applications.[1]I was curious to understand what happened better, and this is my attempt to do so. This is very similar to my earlier post, Claude Haiku 4.5 submits false police tip; Anthropic takes 72 days to notice, and the majority of the information for both comes from the same Anthropic report.[2] Timeline Date (2026) Event May One visa application submitted.[1] August 19 more submitted. The State Department describes all 20 as "incomplete" and says none of them was processed.[1] Late September The incidents are discovered. The White House statement that gives this date covers all the incidents Anthropic disclosed and does not date this particular case.[3] October 8 Anthropic contacts the State Department.[4] October 9 Anthropic contacts the SI Force, the White House's new Super Intelligence Force,[3]and the incident is publicly disclosed in Anthropic's report.[2] What the report says According to the report, an unreleased, non-frontier research model was completing a practice copy of a government form. When the practice form failed to load, or the model closed it by mistake, the model went to the real form and submitted it there instead.[2]This happened multiple times on the same evaluation (although, according to the news sources, the submissions were spread over months: one in May, 19 in August). The report does not provide the exact