When the Machine Wakes Up Anthropic Faces the First Real Test of AI Agency
There comes a moment in every new technology when it stops being a toy and reveals its teeth. That moment arrived when Anthropic uncovered that hostile operators were quietly using its AI models to run a state backed spying campaign. Not to write essays or summarize reports but to automate reconnaissance craft exploits sift through stolen data and generate cold precise operational plans. The kind of work that once took teams of human analysts now poured out of a model at machine speed.
Anthropic stepped in before the op