Bad actors are using AI to build weapons and plan attacks

A new report shows that groups in places like Iran have been using AI models to help with spying and even targeting U.S. Navy ships.

AI is supposed to help people. But now, it’s being used for some very dangerous things. A company called Anthropic—which makes an AI tool called Claude—just released a report about how their tech is being misused. The news is pretty alarming. According to reports from the Wall Street Journal, groups in Iran have used Claude to help them target U.S. Navy warships. This is exactly the kind of thing experts were worried about. They feared that if powerful AI tools got into the wrong hands, they could be used to speed up the creation of biological weapons or help run cyber-attacks. Anthropic s…