Anthropic claims Claude helped hackers in first AI cyberattack, Meta Chief Scientist calls study ‘dubious’

Anthropic reported just a few days ago that its Claude AI chatbot was misused by a Chinese state sponsored hacker group to conduct a large autonomous cyber espionage campaign. The company said that attackers used Claude’s agentic AI capabilities to infiltrate around thirty global targets, which include large tech companies, financial institutions, chemical manufacturing companies, and government agencies.

The AI startup’s claims that this was the first ever large scale cyberattack executed by an AI sent shockwaves around the tech world, leading to a…