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Report: Chinese Hackers Used Anthropic's Claude AI in Cyberattacks

Report: Chinese Hackers UseUsed Anthropic's Claude AI in Cyberattacks

Report: Chinese Hackers Used Anthropic's Claude AI in Cyberattacks
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The Spin

AI-powered cyberattacks represent an unprecedented threat that will almost certainly devastate critical infrastructure. State actors are already weaponizing AI to accelerate vulnerability discovery and exploit development, creating a dangerous digital divide where most systems can't keep pace with evolving threats. The rush to deploy AI without proper security creates massive cyber vulnerabilities that criminals will exploit.

The AI cyber threat is massively overblown and distracts from real security problems happening today. Current breaches don't even involve AI, with phishing attacks actually declining as traditional defenses improve. Fear-mongering about hypothetical AI attacks follows the same dangerous pattern as cyberwar hype, wasting resources that should address actual threats like credential theft.

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The AI cyber threat is massively overblown and distracts from real security problems happening today. Current breaches don't even involve AI, with phishing attacks actually declining as traditional defenses improve. Fear-mongering about hypothetical AI attacks follows the same dangerous pattern as cyberwar hype, wasting resources that should address actual threats like credential theft.

Metaculus Prediction

There's a 95% chance that an AI system will be reported to have independently gained unauthorized access to another computer system before 2033, according to the Metaculus prediction community.


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