{"id":59791,"date":"2025-12-05T00:30:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T00:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/an-ai-for-an-ai-anthropic-says-ai-agents-require-ai-defense\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T00:30:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T00:30:02","slug":"an-ai-for-an-ai-anthropic-says-ai-agents-require-ai-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/an-ai-for-an-ai-anthropic-says-ai-agents-require-ai-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"An AI for an AI: Anthropic says AI agents require AI defense"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anthropic could have scored an easy $4.6 million by using its Claude AI models to find and exploit vulnerabilities in blockchain smart contracts.<\/p>\n

The AI upstart didn\u2019t use the attack it found, which would have been an illegal act that would also undermine the company’s we-try-harder<\/a> image. Anthropic can probably also do without $4.6 million, a sum that would vanish as a rounding error amid the billions it’s spending.<\/p>\n

But it could have done so, as described<\/a> by the company’s security scholars. And that’s intended to be a warning to anyone who remains blas\u00e9 about the security implications of increasingly capable AI models.<\/p>\n