Anthropic Says Chinese Hackers Used AI to Attack 30 Organizations

The company estimates that AI carried out 80 percent to 90 percent of the work during the cyberattacks.

A visitor watches an AI sign on an animated screen at the Mobile World Congress, the telecom industry’s biggest annual gathering, in Barcelona on Feb. 28, 2023. Josep Lago/AFP via Getty Images

Researchers at artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic said on Nov. 13 that they uncovered the first use of AI in a cyberattack by a foreign government.

Anthropic, the San Francisco-based developer of AI chatbot Claude, said in a blog post that it was highly confident that state-sponsored Chinese threat actors used the company’s Claude Code tool to create an attack framework that, once put in play, required minimal human involvement.