Anthropic’s Latest Threat Report Reveals How AI Is Being Tested for Bioweapons, Cyberattacks and Espionage
Anthropic says it has disrupted a series of attempts to use its Claude artificial-intelligence models for potentially dangerous activities, including biological research that could contribute to weapons development, sophisticated cyberattacks, surveillance and political influence operations. The findings provide one of the clearest real-world examples yet of a concern AI researchers have warned about for years: […]
Georgia’s Voting System Faces New Scrutiny as AI Makes Secret Ballots Easier to Trace
Georgia is facing renewed concerns about the privacy of its elections after security researchers demonstrated that a known weakness in the state’s voting technology could potentially allow individual voters to be matched with their ballots—with artificial intelligence making the process substantially easier. The vulnerability does not allow anyone to change votes and does not call […]
Federal Judge Blocks Trump Administration’s Plan to Cut FEMA Workforce in Half
A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration acted unlawfully in developing a plan to cut the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s workforce by roughly half, delivering a significant victory to federal employee unions challenging efforts to dramatically reshape the government’s disaster-response system. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston of the Northern District of California concluded […]
