Artificial intelligence is increasingly being used not just to help people carry out malicious activities, but to take over several steps of those operations, according to a new report by AI company Anthropic.The company said it identified and disrupted attempts to use its Claude AI models for cyberattacks, espionage, surveillance, scams, influence operations, conventional weapons development and research that could potentially support biological weapons development between December 2025 and August 2026.The cases ranged from a Russia-linked cyber espionage campaign and an automated fake-news operation in Bangladesh to systems designed to identify dissidents and attempts to use Claude in research involving…