Anthropic claims Claude AI used for missile projects, global espionage
AI was used to develop missile guidance software in Yemen and to power cyber operations, a report alleges.
Anthropic AI claims to have thwarted multiple malicious operations using its Claude models, ranging from cyber-espionage and weapons design to mass surveillance campaigns.
On the conventional weapons front, the company alleges in a new report that it intervened in northern Yemen, blocking an effort to deploy Claude for missile guidance software, including a guided rocket and a long-range ballistic missile.
According to Anthropic’s threat report, the operators used Claude “in place of human software engineers”, reportedly assigning different instances of the model specific roles to write missile-guidance and flight-control software.
Anthropic also alleges that it identified and removed three Iranian state-aligned accounts using Claude to run covert influence and psychological operations. Each operation was tied to a named Iranian propaganda institution, including the Islamic Culture and Communications Organisation and a Mashhad seminary command room distributing content aligned with the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’ (IRGC) narratives.