Anthropic to Track Anti-AI Activists Before Crime Using Predictive Surveillance
Anthropic advertised a corporate intelligence role in August that listed 'activism' among the global threats its security team may investigate. What it does show is that 'activism' is one of the categories its enterprise-intelligence team may examine when assessing risks to the company.The American Prospect linked the recruitment effort to Anthropic's wider security operation and characterised the company's approach as 'predictive surveillance'. Samdesk alerted the company after organisers changed the timing of a planned protest.According to Ellison, Anthropic received roughly 60 minutes' notice.
- ▪Anthropic advertised a corporate intelligence role in August that listed 'activism' among the global threats its security team may investigate.
- ▪What it does show is that 'activism' is one of the categories its enterprise-intelligence team may examine when assessing risks to the company.The American Prospect linked the recruitment effort to Anthropic's wider security operation and c
- ▪Samdesk alerted the company after organisers changed the timing of a planned protest.According to Ellison, Anthropic received roughly 60 minutes' notice.
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Anthropic advertised a corporate intelligence role in August that listed 'activism' among the global threats its security team may investigate. Separately, members of the company's security staff have spoken about moving towards a more proactive and predictive approach to threat monitoring.The developments have attracted attention following comments from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, who said in August that negative attitudes towards artificial intelligence reflected what he described as 'fundamentally a crisis of trust'.There is no evidence that Amodei was referring to Anthropic's corporate security operation when he made those remarks.
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