Anthropic has said a consultant working for Malian national security authorities used Claude to build a mass-interception platform capable of surveilling communications across all of the country's mobile operators. The company said the system could also generate detailed information on people being targeted, highlighting how AI is being used to build and support surveillance operations.

Anthropic detailed several cases of governments using Claude to surveil people.

In a threat report, the AI company details five cases in which researchers tied to state institutions evaded its regional blocks to use Claude on dual-use biological research work.