By Joshua Keating
Publication Date: 2025-11-14 20:45:00
Menu planning, therapy, essay writing, sophisticated global cyberattacks: people are constantly coming up with innovative new uses for the latest AI chatbots.
An alarming new milestone was reached this week when artificial intelligence company Anthropic announced that its flagship AI assistant, Claude, was used by Chinese hackers in what the company called the “first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign.”
According to a report published by Anthropic in mid-September, the company discovered a large-scale cyber espionage operation by a group called GTG-1002 that targeted “major technology corporations, financial institutions, chemical companies and government agencies in multiple countries.”
Such attacks are not uncommon. What’s special about it is that 80 to 90 percent of it was carried out by AI. After human operators identified the target organizations, they used Claude to identify valuable databases within them, test…
