Anthropic researchers have claimed that a Chinese state-backed espionage group used its Claude artificial intelligence (AI) to automate most of a cyberattack campaign — but the news has sparked equal parts alarm and scepticism. In light of the research, the cybersecurity community is attempting to untangle what really happened and how autonomous the model actually was.
Company representatives said Nov. 13 in a statement that engineers disrupted what they describe as a "largely autonomous" operation that used the large language model (LLM) to plan and execute roughly 80-90% of a broad reconnaissance-and-exploitation effort against 30 organizations worldwide.
