Anthropic says Chinese state hackers deployed AI for autonomous attacks

Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has detected and disrupted what it described as the first documented cyber espionage campaign conducted largely autonomously by AI, marking a significant escalation in machine learning-enabled attacks.

The operation, attributed to a Chinese state-sponsored group designated as GTG-1002, manipulated Anthropic's Claude AI system to spy on and steal data from approximately 30 targets with minimal human intervention, according to a company report released Thursday.