A report from Anthropic released on Thursday details several incidents in which people used the company's AI models "in ways that could support biological weapons development", among other things.The company's decision to release the report comes after several high-profile incidents related to AI models led to concern about whether they were becoming too powerful and a risk to public safety. The report "covers how people tried to misuse Claude – for cyber attacks, influence operations, surveillance, biology, and building weapons – and how we found and stopped them".Anthropic said it was able to disrupt every operation mentioned, and that it had made sure to keep track of lessons learnt with hopes of bolstering the company's protection. One of the examples Anthropic highlighted involved a prompt entered into the company's Claude tool that sought assistance with a grant application to research the chikungunya virus.We're publishing our most detailed threat intelligence report to date. It covers how people tried to misuse Claude—for cyberattacks, influence operations, surveillance, biology, and building weapons—and how we found and stopped them.We disrupted every operation in the report,…— Anthropic (@AnthropicAI) September 10, 2026"Chikungunya virus is a mosquito-borne virus that causes debilitating symptoms (such as severe pain and fever) that can last for weeks or months, and h...
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