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Anthropic's activist surveillance system and bioweapon disclosures fuel AI fearsSemafor says AI fears are accelerating regulation push
7 Sep 11 6:44 AM · 12d ago · 22 articles · 33 posts · 12 comments · 7 sources · development 7 of 8
Semafor reports that mounting concerns, including Anthropic's admission that threat actors used its models to try to develop bioweapons, are hastening calls for AI regulation.
Anthropic AI company at center of both stories
Dario Amodei Anthropic CEOKeon Ellison Anthropic Global Security Operations Center ManagerThe American Prospect Investigative outletResigning Anthropic researcher Former Anthropic AI researcher, ex-OpenAI
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1 outlet AI fears hasten calls for regulation
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""When scientists tell you there is a chance, a chance that it could have a cataclysmic impact on humanity, you've got be a moron not to say, slow it down," he [Bernie Sanders] said on Thursday on BBC's Newsnight." ""When scientists tell you there is a chance, a chance that it could have a cataclysmic impact on humanity, you've got be a moron not…
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Distillation isn't theft when you're big, but apparently it is when you're catching up.
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> Our investigation revealed that DeepSeek also deployed tactics similar to Moonshot’s. DeepSeek built a CoT extraction pipeline, relying on the same cross-session replay attack described above. DeepSeek also silently relayed exchanges to Claude without informing DeepSeek customers. Like GTG-16002, their customers were likely not made aware that…
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The only surprise to be had is being surprised that anyone is surprised. Think of all the good things you can imagine. Someone has asked AI about that. Now think of all the bad things you can imagine. Someone has asked AI about this too.
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AI-virksomheden Anthropic har bygget et hemmeligt # overvågning -system for at holde styr på enkelt-personer og aktivister, der er imod AI og datacentre https:// prospect.org/2026/09/09/anthro pic-artificial-intelligence-surveillance-system-monitor-activists/
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A new report released Thursday by Anthropic alleges persistent distillation attacks by China-based AI companies, which hav... #Techcrunch #breakingnews #news #othur
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They seem to be mixing together things that are actually harmful to the public, with things that are merely harmful to their business model (which is their claim that they can grab whatever data that they want regardless of the wishes of the owners of the data and use it to improve their models, but competitors can't do that to them).
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Just lock me up already, let's get this over with. I'm up to here with this AI bullcrap! I will give it 5 more years until they round us up to chip our brains and give AI full control over it.
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# BBCNews - Anthropic blocks 'malicious use' of AI that could develop biological weapons https://www. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2zrr pkx20o
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Aside from the threat actors mentioned in the report, can we talk about how freely Anthropic is spying on its customers and turning Claude into a global surveillance tool?
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"And this is why local models are dangerous and should be regulated, while we, Anthropic, can clearly regulate ourselves" - the subtext, for those who missed it
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"This report covers activity that... [we] disrupted between December 2025 and August 2026 across seven harm areas: cyber operations, influence operations, surveillance, scams and fraud, biological misuse, conventional weapons development, and distillation. Claude Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus models were used. None of the misuse cases involved the use…
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It is so fucking tiring. All of this marketing disguised as doom posting and "tech" bullettins, both full of trust me bro
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The press release leaked before review. The line was supposed to read "we prevented ai from developing bio weapon"
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Anthropic says it disrupted several allegedly malicious uses of its Claude artificial intelligence models in recent months by Russian and Chinese actors, including tech giants Alibaba, Moonshot, DeepSeek and Xiaomi. https://www. japantimes.co.jp/business/2026 /09/11/tech/anthropic-russa-china-ai-claude/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #…
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To them distillation of models is bad but not distillation or art, books, hand written code, user generated content etc
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"This report covers activity we disrupted between December 2025 and August 2026 across seven harm areas: cyber operations, influence operations, surveillance, scams and fraud, biological misuse, conventional weapons development, and distillation" https://www. anthropic.com/threat-intellige nce-report-september-2026
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It seems hard to believe they could expect to get away with this, given model-to-model differences in writing style.
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In today's episode of "No shit, Sherlock" ... Anthropic blocks 'malicious use' of AI that could develop biological weapons - BBC News https://www. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2zrr pkx20o
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Never seen a group of people more addicted to drama.Is this what they call “collective psychosis?”
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# BBCNews - Anthropic researcher believes more than 10% chance AI 'could kill all humans' https://www. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgwy1 k42w4o
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Silently forwarding user prompts to Claude is the only concrete claim here. Everything else is spin.
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# BBC # News Anthropic blocks 'malicious use' of AI that could develop biological weapons
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https:// prospect.org/2026/09/09/anthro pic-artificial-intelligence-surveillance-system-monitor-activists/
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