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Graham describes Anthropic's sandbox-detection disclosures and ongoing incidents

New York City Council · Oct 5, 2026 · starts 1:55:18 · 2 min 59 sec

Graham discusses Anthropic's sandbox-escape detections during training and says incidents of many natures are ongoing, with disclosure at the right time while preserving affected parties' safety and coordinating with law enforcement.

Julie Menin

I'm going to go to Mr.

Julie Menin

Graham.

Member of the Public - Logan Graham

Thank you.

Member of the Public - Logan Graham

Yes.

Member of the Public - Logan Graham

So we, to your original question of how many incidents, you know, cases of breaking out of sandboxes, these are capabilities we evaluate for all the time.

Member of the Public - Logan Graham

We've published not just with these incidents from the summer.

Member of the Public - Logan Graham

But also previously cases where we observe advanced cyber capabilities, including breaking out of sandboxes, which to be clear from a technical standpoint is just one part and

Member of the Public - Logan Graham

one type of capability that does not in itself mean that the system would reach a real world affected party.

Member of the Public - Logan Graham

But ones that we did observe in training at points, and we disclosed that in the lengthy risk report.

Member of the Public - Logan Graham

It's difficult to comment on ongoing investigations.

Member of the Public - Logan Graham

It's really important that we do that in as secure a way as possible.

Member of the Public - Logan Graham

We follow a process of

Member of the Public - Logan Graham

making sure we can remediate and do so and be as transparent as possible while preserving the safety of any affected party.

Member of the Public - Logan Graham

And of course, incidents are always ongoing, but I sort of reassure and reassert that we are extremely committed to being as transparent as possible, fundamentally because we believe that when we can, being as transparent as possible about what we've learned,

Member of the Public - Logan Graham

who is affected, how others might learn from it.

Member of the Public - Logan Graham

how to defend against risks or how we can help them as well is our number one priority.

Julie Menin

So on that note, then, are there any incidents that you have not disclosed publicly that you're currently investigating?

Member of the Public - Logan Graham

As a matter of sort of ongoing business, there are incidents sort of all the time of many different natures.

Member of the Public - Logan Graham

So, for example, one that we are transparent about quite a lot when it's the right time to do so are cases of misuse, for example, on our platforms.

Member of the Public - Logan Graham

I'd refer back to our early September report on our threat intelligence report that we released, where we detail this in quite some detail.

Member of the Public - Logan Graham

What's really important, though, is sometimes we have to work with law enforcement and the right level of government to remediate, to figure out what information you can and can't disclose to make sure that the affected parties remain safe.

Member of the Public - Logan Graham

And so as a matter, there's ongoing all the time, but disclosure at the right time in the safest way is our commitment.

Julie Menin

And when will you be disclosing these new incidents that are being investigated?

Member of the Public - Logan Graham

This is sort of an ongoing practice.

Member of the Public - Logan Graham

We regularly release threat intelligence reports in cases like that.

Member of the Public - Logan Graham

When we release a model or when we do risk reports, which we do regularly, we sort of have a cadence and schedule that we do that.

Member of the Public - Logan Graham

And then when important and sort of urgent, we will disclose in advance that schedule as well.