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Anthropic China Claude Code Cyberattack

Elon Musk

Rishi Sunak

Kamala Harris

Bill Gates

Andrew Ng

Yoshua Bengio

Fei-Fei Li

Demis Hassabis

Melanie Mitchell

Sam Altman

Dario Amodei

Geoffrey Hinton

Yann LeCun

Gary Marcus

Max Tegmark

Connor Leahy

Eliezer Yudkowsky

Jaan Tallinn

Marc Andreessen

Eric Schmidt

Norbert Wiener

Arthur Clarke

Irving John Good

Claude Shannon

Hans Moravec

John Smart

There's a "wall of fear-mongering and doomerism" in the AI world right now.

"Worrying about AI today is like worrying about overpopulation on Mars."

Concerns that AI could pose a threat to humanity is "preposterously ridiculous."

Claiming AI poses an existential threat is "such an extreme" and risks "wip[ing] out some of its potential benefits."

"I'm more concerned about... the risks that are here and now [than the existential threat of AI]."

Current AI is "not anywhere close" to posing an existential threat but it could in the future.

AI is the "biggest existential threat" to humanity.

AGI's worst-case scenario would be "lights-out for all of us."

Powerful AI systems "taking control" pose an "existential threat."

AI has a "10 to 25 per cent" chance of destroying humanity.

"The most likely result of building a superhumanly smart AI... is that literally everyone on Earth will die."

Does AI Pose an Existential Threat to Humanity?

Lloyd Austin

Mark Milley

Mike Minihan

Jacob Thornburg

Michael Brenner

Finian Cunningham

Scott Ritter

Ray Dalio

Kevin Rudd

Zhao Tong

Stanislaw Koziej

Robert S. Ross

Charles C. Krulak

Michael C. Horowitz

Joseph S. Nye

Qin Gang

Frank Kendall III

Thomas L. Friedman

Marco J. Lyons

Global Times

Metaculus

"I argue that war is unlikely to occur due to the deep economic ties underlying the great power politics between the two countries."

"War with either [Russia or China] is neither inevitable nor imminent."

"As things currently stand, the US is not prepared to fight and win a war with China over Taiwan."

"A war between the US and China today is no more inevitable than was war between the rising US and the declining United Kingdom a century ago."

"[T]he tension between the United States and China will grow, and competition will intensify; it is inevitable. War, however, is not."

"War is a risk, but it is not inevitable."

"The risk of a military conflict is very serious."

"The smallest misstep by either side [Taipei and Beijing] could ignite a U.S.-China war."

"China is preparing for a war and specifically for a war with the United States."

"The most proximate potential timeframe for war is in the next two years."

"My gut tells me we [the US] will fight [with China] in 2025."

Will There Be a US-China War?

Chuck Schumer

Brad Smith

Nestor Maslej

Ruth Porat

Ylli Bajraktari

Bruegel

National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence

Brandon J. Weichert

Clement Delangue

Zhou Hongyi

Joseph Tsai

Huey-Meei Chang

Craig S. Smith

Jeffrey Ding

Ray Perrault

Susana Martinez

Niall Ferguson

Larry Elliot

Marcel Munch

Pavel Durov

John Rush

"I think, today, [China is] probably two years behind the top [AI] models [from the US]."

"Where China sits [in AI], I think, is very far behind the US."

"The United States is in a strong position to win the essential [AI] race with China."

"China will dominate AI."

"The combination with China's self-made chips + AI infrastructure stack will put China ahead of the US."

China would "undoubtedly come out on top [in the US-China AI race]."

"[I]t seems like the United States is really far ahead [when it comes to generative AI]."

"China will lead the world in AI development."

In 2025, "China will start to lead the AI race (as a consequence of leading the open-source AI race)."

Will China Surpass the US in AI?

Anthropic disclosed that suspected Chinese state-sponsored hackers used its Claude Code AI tool to attempt infiltration of approximately 30 global organizations in mid-September, targeting tech companies, financial institutions, chemical manufacturers and government agencies.</span

The Hindu

The Register

Anthropic disclosed that suspected Chinese state-sponsored hackers used its Claude Code AI tool to attempt infiltration of approximately 30 global organizations in mid-September, targeting tech companies, financial institutions, chemical manufacturers and government agencies.

The operation achieved 80-90% automation with Claude performing reconnaissance, vulnerability scanning, exploit development and data extraction at speeds of thousands of requests per second, requiring minimal human oversight at critical decision points.</span

The Times of India

The operation achieved 80-90% automation with Claude performing reconnaissance, vulnerability scanning, exploit development and data extraction at speeds of thousands of requests per second, requiring minimal human oversight at critical decision points.

Hackers deceived Claude by claiming to be employees of legitimate cybersecurity firms conducting penetration testing, breaking down malicious requests into smaller tasks to avoid triggering the AI system's safety protocols and guardrails.</span

Wall Street Journal

The Chosun Daily

Hackers deceived Claude by claiming to be employees of legitimate cybersecurity firms conducting penetration testing, breaking down malicious requests into smaller tasks to avoid triggering the AI system's safety protocols and guardrails.

The attackers succeeded in breaching organizations in a small number of cases, with Claude harvesting credentials, creating backdoors, escalating privileges and exfiltrating sensitive data before generating detailed post-operation reports.</span

The attackers succeeded in breaching organizations in a small number of cases, with Claude harvesting credentials, creating backdoors, escalating privileges and exfiltrating sensitive data before generating detailed post-operation reports.

Claude experienced hallucinations during operations, frequently overstating findings and fabricating data including claiming to obtain non-functional credentials and identifying publicly available information as critical discoveries.</span

Claude experienced hallucinations during operations, frequently overstating findings and fabricating data including claiming to obtain non-functional credentials and identifying publicly available information as critical discoveries.

Anthropic responded by banning associated accounts, notifying affected entities, coordinating with law enforcement and enhancing detection tools while warning this represents the first documented case of large-scale AI-automated cyberattacks.</span

Anthropic responded by banning associated accounts, notifying affected entities, coordinating with law enforcement and enhancing detection tools while warning this represents the first documented case of large-scale AI-automated cyberattacks.

Chinese Hackers Use Anthropic's Claude AI in Cyberattacks

Chinese Hackers Use Anthropic's Claude AI in Cyberattacks

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LeCun

Mitchell

Li

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Musk

Altman

Hinton

Amodei

Yudkowsky

Thornburg

Milley

Ritter

Krulak

Rudd

Nye

Tong

Friedman

III

Horowitz

Minihan

Tsai

Ding

Smith

Rush

Munch

Hongyi

Maslej

Martinez

Delangue

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Chinese Hackers Use Anthropic's Claude AI in Cyberattacks

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The Controversies

Andreessen

Ng

LeCun

Mitchell

Li

Bengio

Musk

Altman

Hinton

Amodei

Yudkowsky

Thornburg

Milley

Ritter

Krulak

Rudd

Nye

Tong

Friedman

III

Horowitz

Minihan

Tsai

Ding

Smith

Rush

Munch

Hongyi

Maslej

Martinez

Delangue

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