Anthropic announced on Thursday that Chinese state-backed hackers used the company’s AI model Claude to automate roughly 30 attacks on corporations and governments during a September campaign, according to reporting from the Wall Street Journal.

Anthropic said that up to 80% to 90% of the attack was automated with AI, a level higher than previous hacks. It occurred “literally with the click of a button, and then with minimal human interaction,” Anthropic’s head of threat intelligence Jacob Klein told the Journal. He added: “The human was only involved in a few critical chokepoints, saying, ‘Yes, continue,’ ‘Don’t continue,’ ‘Thank you for this information,’ ‘Oh, that doesn’t look right, Claude, are you sure?’”

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