Anthropic builds threat intelligence operation that treats activism as a security risk
A vendor tracked a protest around an executive, while new roles call for OSINT investigations and ties to police.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Primary source: The American Prospect
Why it matters
Frontier AI labs are becoming private intelligence operators as well as platform companies. Anthropic now sets its own thresholds for tracking protests, profiling potential threats, and referring users to police.
Anthropic, led by cofounder and CEO Dario Amodei, has built a corporate intelligence operation that monitors protests near executives and facilities, investigates people deemed potential threats, and exchanges information with law enforcement. A report published Wednesday by The American Prospect ties together Anthropic's job listings, statements to other publications, and an interview in which security officials described using an AI-assisted risk platform to track a protest.…
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