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Anthropic shows simulated Equifax-style cyberattack to illustrate AI dual‑use risks
Summary
Anthropic researchers demonstrated a sped‑up simulation showing how a large language model combined with a bespoke ‘cyber toolkit’ could probe and exploit network vulnerabilities, stressing dual‑use risks and the need for predeployment testing and government partnerships.
Chairwoman Hayes convened a bipartisan roundtable demonstration in which Kevin Troy, a member of Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team, presented a simulated cyberattack based on the 2017 Equifax breach and explained why frontier AI raises dual‑use national security concerns.
Troy said the company built a high‑fidelity replica of the Equifax network with Carnegie Mellon researchers and showed how an AI model, when paired with low‑level tooling, could probe, exploit and exfiltrate data. "The good news is that the initial answer to the question of can Claude do that is no, not out of the box," Troy said, adding that the…
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