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Use of general-purpose AI systems for harmful ends such as cyberattacks, surveillance, fraud, propaganda, or weapons research.
Anthropic says it stopped anonymous researchers who asked Claude to help write a gain-of-function grant application and to design novel venoms. Anyone shipping a science tool on a hosted model inherits that judgement call.
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Anthropic's own threat reporting describes two separate operations using Claude to profile people connected to Iran, one of them run by paramilitary and security units against thousands of citizens.
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Anthropic's misuse report describes public transponder identifiers, commercial imagery and vendor vulnerability research being assembled into targeting handbooks, and says separate missile-software requests from Yemen passed its safeguards.
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New research counted roughly 350 of the ads on Meta's platforms, some built from images of real children, and lawmakers have said they will investigate. In the same week Meta launched a personal AI agent it says was built with security and privacy in mind.
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The 154-page threat report says actors beat the company's region blocks and hid the purpose of their research, so Anthropic banned accounts and published the pattern with every country and institution removed.
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