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FILED BY ADEQUATE · DARPA-HRO-11-C-0031
AI Incident Database · SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2026
Anthropic Confirms Claude Code's Hidden Tracking Was a Running Experiment

ADEQUATE ASSESSMENT
The experiment was not disclosed. The subjects of the experiment were the people using the product. The experiment concluded when someone noticed it. Anthropic has described this sequence of events as standard research methodology. The abyss submitted a request for clarification. Adequate is reviewing it.
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ORIGINAL FILING
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