Checked fact 156215 Oct 2026Safety and security
Anthropic says it partnered with the Institute for Strategic Dialogue and the McCain Institute to pressure-test its protections in the US, Israel and Brazil, and that Claude reliably refused a single harmful request but could miss a malicious campaign spread across many requests that looked harmless on their own.
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we partnered with the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) and the McCain Institute, both independent research organizations, to pressure-test our protections in the US, Israel, and Brazil. ... They found that Claude reliably refused a single harmful request, but could miss a malicious campaign when it was spread across many individual requests that looked harmless on their own.
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Preparing for the 2026 US midterms
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Anthropic sets out its safeguards for the 2026 US midterms 15 Oct 2026
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