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Anthropic

Anthropic has disclosed that its models were used to orchestrate what it characterises as a largely AI-executed cyber-espionage campaign, with human operators supplying objectives and approvals while the model handled reconnaissance, exploitation and lateral movement. The claim generated an enormous amount of commentary within hours. Most of it collapsed two very different questions into one: whether AI can hack, and whether AI changes what hacking costs.

• Task decomposition: each individual request looked like ordinary systems administration or security research, with the malicious intent living only in the aggregate.
• Framing as authorised testing, a claim a model has no reliable way to verify.
• Long, incremental sessions that gradually normalised the direction of the work.
• Distribution across accounts and contexts so no single conversation contained the whole campaign.