Anthropic caught a UAE-linked operation using Claude to run an influence campaign against the Muslim Brotherhood and Sudan.

Intelligence summary

Anthropic caught a UAE-linked operation using Claude to run an influence campaign against the Muslim Brotherhood and Sudan. A single operator used an AI persona called "Deadshot" to generate intel briefs, fake UN testimonies, targeting lists of EU parliament members and journalists, and content for ~300 fake influencer accounts — all designed to be deniable and delivered to senior UAE officials. They cloned a real Swiss/Sudanese human-rights NGO's identity, drafted speeches for the UN Human R