An alarming watershed for artificial intelligence, or an overhyped threat?

AI startup Anthropic’s recent announcement that it detected the world’s first artificial intelligence-led hacking campaign has prompted a multitude of responses from cybersecurity experts.

While some observers have raised the alarm about the long-feared arrival of a dangerous inflection point, others have greeted the claims with scepticism, arguing that the startup’s account leaves out crucial details and raises more questions than answers.

In a report on Friday, Anthropic said its assistant Claude Code was manipulated to carry out 80-90 percent of a “large-scale” and “highly sophisticated” cyberattack, with human intervention required “only sporadically”.

Anthropic, the creator of the popular Claude chatbot,

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