The Bad Guy with an AI Named Claude
The Bad Guy With An AI Named ClaudeZvi MowshowitzSep 15, 202663116ShareA lot of bad guys try to use Claude to do bad things. We think.Anthropic has disrupted a bunch of them, and offers an extensive report. One of these things, many would say, is not like the others.
- ▪The Bad Guy With An AI Named ClaudeZvi MowshowitzSep 15, 202663116ShareA lot of bad guys try to use Claude to do bad things.
- ▪We think.Anthropic has disrupted a bunch of them, and offers an extensive report.
- ▪One of these things, many would say, is not like the others.
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The Bad Guy With An AI Named ClaudeZvi MowshowitzSep 15, 202663116ShareA lot of bad guys try to use Claude to do bad things. Mostly they fail. We think.Anthropic has disrupted a bunch of them, and offers an extensive report. If Anthropic is sharing the worst cases, or anything close to them, things are actually looking good on the misuse front for closed models, even better than I thought.This report covers activity we disrupted between December 2025 and August 2026across seven harm areas: cyber operations, influence operations, surveillance, scamsand fraud, biological misuse, conventional weapons development, and distillation.There’s a bit of Arson, Murder and Jaywalking there. One of these things, many would say, is not like the others.
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