Anthropic Disrupts State-Backed Surveillance Campaigns Using AI in China, Iran, Africa
Anthropic said the actors used Claude to automate work that once required analyst teams, including dossiers, social media analysis and malware development.
- Governments in Mali, China, and Iran used Anthropic's Claude AI models to automate and streamline state surveillance operations traditionally done by analyst teams.
- In China, a religious affairs intelligence office reduced many analyst teams to a single office using an AI assistant to conduct thousands of investigations monthly, analyzing social media for politically sensitive content to identify surveillance targets.
- Mali's national security used Claude to create a system for collecting mobile data and building dossiers, while Iranian actors built a malicious Firefox extension to harvest social network identities; Anthropic banned related accounts but noted that operations continued using other AI models.
- Jacob Klein of Anthropic said AI is making surveillance cheaper and more efficient by automating parts of intelligence work rather than changing targets; banning accounts has not stopped these efforts as actors shift to open-source AI models.
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The Korea Times
China, Iran among countries that have used AI to aid spying, Anthropic says
SAN FRANCISCO — Anthropic said Thursday it shut down multiple cases of state-sponsored surveillance operations that used its artificial intelligence (AI) models, and warned that governments and state-aligned actors are increasingly using AI to spy on ethnic minorities and dissidents. The incidents were found and disrupted between January and July, and they originated in China, Iran and west Africa, Anthropic said in a report about misuse of its …
The Economic Times
Times of IndiaAnthropic disrupts state-backed surveillance campaigns using AI in China, Iran, Africa
Anthropic AI company has stopped several state-sponsored surveillance operations. These operations used its artificial intelligence models for spying purposes. Governments and state-aligned actors are increasingly using AI for surveillance. Chinese developers also deceptively used Anthropic's AI models for their own development. The company also blocked efforts to design weapons and conduct biological research.
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