Conventional Weapons
-We identified a cell of threat actors based in northern Yemen
-We identified a China-based threat actor who used Claude
-We identified likely freelance Russia-based threat actors
-We identified a China-based actor who used Claude’s chat
-In this case, a Russia-based actor used Claude
-We identified a China-based threat actor who used Claude
Biological misuse
We are withholding the names of research institutions, the countries wherein the activity took place, and the specific biological agents or research techniques involved. The individuals implicated in these case studies are working scientists. We do not assert that they intended harm, and identifying them or their labs could expose them to harm.
if I just randomly asked claude how to build a bioweapon would it flag it and then they would claim they stopped it in a press release, even though i have no ability to actually build something like that?
From this double standard, we can infer the country is one that the US would have a double standard in favour of. That narrows it down to two countries.
For all we know, the boxes connecting to Claude from Yemen, Russia, and China could have been ORBs of actors from entirely different states. Attribution is non-trivial
