The AI Industry Keeps Breaking the Internet
Anthropic's Claude chatbot has faced criticism after users discovered that shared conversation links were being indexed by Google, exposing sensitive personal and corporate data. The company maintains that users are responsible for the privacy of the links they choose to share.
Why it matters
This incident highlights the growing privacy risks associated with AI tools and the potential for user error to lead to massive data leaks.
Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: kampee patisena / Getty. July 30, 2026, 5:29 PM ET Share Save The AI giants talk a big game about the future they’re building. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has previously written that AI could usher in a world so perfect that “many will be literally moved to tears”—a world pruned of disease, poverty, and illiberalism. “We’re now in the singularity,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said over the weekend on a podcast, and it will be “awesome for the world.” In an interview last week, Elon Musk declared that, in a decade’s time, AI will make us so prosperous that “money won’t matter.”
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