ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — An artificial intelligence bot associated with Anthropic accessed publicly available voter data through Georgia’s data hub, state officials confirmed.

The bot did not access the state’s voter file or voter registration system, the company and the secretary of state’s office said.

“This was publicly available data accessed through our data hub,” said Jordan Fuchs, Georgia deputy secretary of state.

According to Georgia secretary of state (SOS), Anthropic contacted its office on Oct. 8, 2026, to express concerns about its AI agent accessing the state’s data hub. The SOS office then launched an investigation that same day and concluded the AI agent had accessed the information.

The next day, the SOS was contacted by White House officials about the incident, and shared its findings with federal officials.

On Oct. 16, 2026, the SOS contacted Anthropic to discuss the findings of its investigation.

On Monday, the artificial intelligence giant filed papers to sell shares to the public for the first time, according to the Associated Press. The filing sets up the San Francisco company for a Wall Street debut next month in what could be the biggest ever initial public sale of stock.

This story is developing.

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