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Anthropic Says It Blocked Possible Efforts to Build Biological Weapons

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Publications over time

17:04 UTC09:00 UTC19 publications
Publications in order of reporting
#Time (UTC)After the firstPublicationHeadline
1firstHacker NewsAnthropic Says It Blocked Possible Efforts to Build Biological Weapons
2+1 hour 16 minutesQuartzAnthropic warns of efforts to use its AI to build biological weapons by Cris Tolomia
3+2 hours 44 minutesCBS NewsAnthropic says scientists used AI for possible biological weapons development
4+5 hours 23 minutesFinancial Times (paywall)Anthropic stops attempts to use models for potential biological weapons
5+5 hours 31 minutesThe GuardianAnthropic details bad actors’ efforts to misuse its AI for bioweapons by Dara Kerr
6+5 hours 34 minutesThe Information (paywall)Anthropic Says It Blocked Bioweapons Efforts and Detected Chinese Distillation Attacks by Tiffany Li
7+5 hours 53 minutesFox NewsBioweapon threat exposed as Anthropic sounds alarm on foreign actors plotting virus experiments
8+12 hours 28 minutesTimes of IndiaHouthis using AI for missiles? Anthropic says Yemen weapons cell using Claude by VIVEK DUBEY
9+15 hours 4 minutesAl JazeeraAnthropic warns of bids to use AI to build biological weapons
10+15 hours 8 minutesSky NewsAnthropic blocks effort to use AI to research potential biological weapons
11+16 hours 55 minutesTom's HardwareAnthropic says Claude thwarted bioweapon research from state-sponsored actors — covert accounts used U.S. proxies to attempt to engineer deadlier viruses, tried to evade identification and regional blocks
12+17 hours 21 minutesBloomberg (limited free articles)Anthropic Says Yemen Group Used Claude in Missile Development by Loni Prinsloo, Omar El Chmouri
13+19 hours 58 minutesArs TechnicaClaude users found ways around safeguards for bioweapons research by Zehra Munir, Financial Times
14+22 hours 26 minutesBusiness Insider (limited free articles)Anthropic says Russian and Chinese threat actors used Claude as a weapons engineering assistant for drone swarming and more by Chris Panella
15+29 hours 51 minutesThe Kyiv IndependentRussia uses AI in cyberattacks against Ukraine, Europe, targeting WhatsApp accounts, government ministries, Anthropic says by Volodymyr Ivanyshyn
16+41 hours 25 minutesWIREDFrom Hacks to Bioweapons, Claude Misuse Is Now Everywhere by Andy Greenberg, Lily Hay Newman, Dell Cameron
17+43 hours 31 minutesAxiosAnthropic report: 5 ways Claude was exploited for war, spying and repression by Zachary Basu
18+65 hours 35 minutesScience“Chilling” warning or overreaction? AI bioweapons report divides experts by Jocelyn Kaiser
19+87 hours 56 minutesSouth China Morning Post (limited free articles)How an AI plot targeted Malaysia’s elections and exposed deep data risks

Who covered it, by audience

11 of 19 publications on this story have an audience score.

Publications by the political lean of their audience
Audience leans Democratic (5)Mixed audience (4)Audience leans Republican (2)

Audience lean comes from Robertson, R. E., Jiang, S., Joseph, K., Friedland, L., Lazer, D., and Wilson, C. (2018), Auditing Partisan Audience Bias within Google Search, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 2(CSCW), article 148, used with the authors' permission. The score shows which party's registered voters, on Twitter, shared an outlet's links more. It is not a rating of the outlet's own slant, and it dates from 2018. See how we use it.