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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
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Bernadette B. Tixon

Anthropic Warns AI Is Making State Surveillance Cheaper and Easier To Scale

Anthropic report warns governments can now run surveillance with just one official and an AI chatbot, after Claude models were misused by actors in Mali, China and Iran (Credit: DC Studio/Magnific)

Governments are increasingly using AI to automate parts of their surveillance operations.

According to Anthropic's latest threat intelligence report, people linked to governments in Mali, China and Iran have used its Claude models to streamline surveillance work, ranging from mobile data dossiers to malware that harvested people's identities from social media.

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