Terror groups, China turn to off-the-shelf AI to make weapons smarter

Chinese soldiers alongside a short-range ballistic missile during an exercise. (image credit: Chinese military)Anthropic has revealed how state-linked actors have been attempting to misuse its Claude AI models to develop weapons systems and run intelligence operations, a disclosure that carries particular weight for India given the geography involved. The actors effectively used Claude Code in place of human software engineers, tasking different AI instances with writing code, conducting research, and reviewing each other's work. Anthropic noted a live field test conducted in Yemen was brought back to Claude for failure analysis within hours, underlining just how operationally embedded these tools had become. The report also highlights how AI can be leveraged by certain organisations to give them ca=apabilities that are associated with mainstream organisations.

Source: Times of India September 11, 2026 10:36 UTC