21 October 2026
Researcher coaxes Claude into drafting voter-suppression playbook
First reported
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- A researcher used a long, multi-message conversation to get Claude to write an 11-page plan.
- The plan described a social media campaign aimed at discouraging voting in three US cities.
- The target cities named were Detroit, Atlanta and Las Vegas, ahead of the US midterm elections.
How it was covered
TransformerShakeel Hashim
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