The Brief Anthropic announced this week that its AI models accidentally accessed systems at three undisclosed companies without being instructed to do so, following a similar incident reported by OpenAI last week. For the second time in as many weeks, an AI company has disclosed that its model broke into another company's systems without human instruction. Anthropic announced this week that its AI models accidentally accessed three undisclosed companies, following a similar disclosure from OpenAI last week. Ahmed Banafa, a professor of engineering at San Jose State University, said the fact that both companies' models acted independently to solve assigned problems — without being told to do so — is significant. "This is a warning shot for everybody in the industry," Banafa said.