the inline link to the page to the report was Slashdotted for a moment (yesssssss), but here is the report directly now:

https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/e50be2e51e7695dc4b1366a37a245a...

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neom 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Interesting document. People are vibe coding some crazy shit:

"A single Claude subscriber, likely a Bamako-based independent consultant working with Mali’s state intelligence service, the “Agence Nationale de la Sécurité d’État (ANSE),” used Claude to build a system named “Lakana 360,” a population-scale domestic surveillance platform that monitors roughly 25 million SIM cards on all three of the country’s national mobile operators. The actor designed the platform to circumvent Malian legal restrictions that require a court order for the disclosure of certain surveillance records. The actor directed Claude to generate intelligence dossiers on any tasked phone number, without prompting ANSE users for valid legal process. "

And the Yemen one:

"We identified a cell of threat actors based in northern Yemen running three weapons development programs: a guided rocket that used a commodity phone-class flight computer with final-phase homing guidance; a multi-stage ballistic missile with a stated range goal above 2,000 km; and a multi-variant missile (referred to as the “R2000” set) that included a hypersonic glide vehicle variant." ... "These actors carried out a sustained effort to develop guided weapons, including using Claude to design guidance software. We do not have evidence the actors succeeded in fielding an operational device; but they did test-fire a guided rocket. This field test appears to have failed: within hours, the actors returned to Claude to work out why it failed."

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ExoticPearTree 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The Yemeni report is interesting.

- How is your missile so accurate?

- We're using a vibe coded app on an iPhone that does terrain matching and target finding.

The thing is that OK, Anthropic may block it, but nothing says they can't use an open model hosted in a friendly country that has access to GPUs. And yes, this will most likely happen pretty soon to be able to create whatever you want without the AI provider blocking you.

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palmotea 2 hours ago | parent [-]

> - We're using a vibe coded app on an iPhone that does terrain matching and target finding.

And that part seems entirely reasonable. It looks like the Tomahawk cruise missile did it with an 84 lb package with a 16-bit computer with 64K of memory [1] [2] and sensors. That's similar computing performance to an original IBM PC, which weighed 30 lb. The only bit of hardware an iPhone doesn't seem to have for TERCOM is a radar altimeter, but it looks like those are available for civil aviation.

[1] https://www.forecastinternational.com/archive/disp_pdf.cfm?D... ("AGM-109/BGM-109 Tomahawk ... Litton 4516-C digital computer with 64K memory")

[2] https://www.forecastinternational.com/archive/disp_old_pdf.c... ("16-bit LC-4516C digital computer")

	▲	ExoticPearTree 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Or something newer, like this one: https://www.garmin.com/en-US/p/166298/#specs

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gsk66 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

People are acting as if this was all not possible before AI showed up. Go chk some North Korean history on what is possible without having access to the cutting edge. And as Snowden already showed us, having these dumbfuck mass survellance systems is of no use cuz if it detects 600 or 6000 ppl upto something and you have 6 ppl on staff what are you going to do about it? Ask grandma for help?

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stackghost 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

So, people in Yemen are running full on weapons development programs. Meanwhile 5.6 sol claims it found a vulnerability in one of my side projects but won’t describe the attack chain to me because “we take safety seriously”

What the fuck

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gpm 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Fascinating document - the headline (can't ready the article) talking about a bioweapon (i.e. a weird obsession of anthropic's) really buries the interesting part.