Anthropic said late last year that state-sponsored Chinese hackers had used its artificial intelligence technology in an effort to infiltrate the computer systems of roughly 30 companies and government agencies around the world. In a blog post, Anthropic said it was the first reported case of a cyberattack in which A.I. technologies had gathered sensitive information with limited help from human operators. Human hackers, the company said, handled about 10 to 20 percent of the work needed to conduct the attack. Five months later, that remains the only known example of a cyberattack driven largely by an “A.I. agent” — technology that can write computer code and use software on its own.

Full commentary : With new systems from companies like Anthropic and OpenAI, hackers can attack with greater speed. The defense is more A.I.