The artificial intelligence company Anthropic revealed this Friday that it dismantled a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Muslim Brotherhood movement and influencing public opinion about the role of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the Sudan war, pointing out that the operation was coordinated by “high-ranking Emirati officials.”
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In a report, the American company details that a single operator -called ‘Deadshot’ and hosted on its own private platform- used its AI assistant to replicate the same sequence of commands in numerous sessions simultaneously, with the goal of carrying out a transatlantic and regional operation.
“They built and managed a network of approximately 300 invented ‘influencers’ on social media accounts. They created a front NGO that copied the identity of a real Swiss organization and published state-authored Human Rights reports in its name,” the text states.
It also points out that “official testimonies were written to be delivered to two people at the 62nd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council.”
“The content was designed with specific restrictions to ensure that neither of the two speeches mentioned the UAE,” the report notes.
Similarly, the report concludes that “18 members of the European Parliament and prominent journalists” were thoroughly investigated, compiling detailed dossiers on them, while also gathering files on UN special rapporteurs critical of Abu Dhabi’s conduct in Sudan.
“Although the operation was constructed so that it could not be traced back to actors, our investigation has securely linked it to UAE government officials,” the report indicates.
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On the other hand, in the same report, Anthropic points out that they identified “a cell of actors” based in northern Yemen -without explicitly naming the Houthi rebels- who were running three weapons development programs with their AI assistant, including a guided rocket, a ballistic missile with a range over 2,000 kilometers, and an R2000 series missile.
“The actors used Claude Code instead of human software engineers to develop the guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) software that directs and stabilizes a flying vehicle. For example, they used Claude to integrate an open-source autopilot into a flight computer about the size of a phone, writing the control and position estimation software,” the text specifies.
The company also indicates that most of the time the security measures established in their model “blocked many of their requests”, although not “all” the time.
“They employed various tactics to circumvent these measures, such as hiding their objectives and the products for which the software was intended, and fragmented their work into multiple sessions so that none alone would reveal their true intentions,” it adds.
Anthropic states that they suspended the accounts and shared information about this “with partners in the public and private sectors to mitigate risks.”
“We have evidence that the actors had already created a set of external simulation tools that do not depend on Claude”, it asserts.
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