Anthropic report reveals China-based AI-enabled surveillance on CTA, ICT and SFT - Phayul

Anthropic has published a threat intelligence report stating that China-based, government-aligned actors used artificial intelligence to conduct surveillance and intelligence gathering targeting Tibetan Buddhist civil society, the Central Tibetan Administration and Tibetan advocacy organisations, according to an article published by Phayul. The article's headline identifies the Central Tibetan Administration, the International Campaign for Tibet and SFT as the focus of the reported surveillance. The article names the International Campaign for Tibet among the Tibetan advocacy organisations described as targets, and attributes the findings to Anthropic's threat intelligence report.

According to the article, Anthropic said actors linked to municipal public- and state-security organs used Claude to support surveillance and transnational repression. The article states that this activity included monitoring overseas dissidents, advocacy organisations and civil-society groups. The article attributes the report to Anthropic and describes the actors it identifies as government-aligned and based in China.

The article states that the surveillance and intelligence gathering were directed at Tibetan Buddhist civil society, the Central Tibetan Administration and Tibetan advocacy organisations. It says the actors involved were government-aligned and linked to municipal public- and state-security organs, and that the reported use of Claude included support for monitoring overseas dissidents, advocacy organisations and civil-society groups. The article describes the document as a new threat intelligence report from Anthropic and characterises the activity it reports as surveillance and intelligence gathering that was enabled by artificial intelligence and based in China.