U.S. lawmakers have reportedly called in several AI development companies to explain how certain models have become part of a wide-ranging espionage effort.
Among them is Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, who was asked to appear before the House Homeland Security Committee on December 17 to explain how Chinese state actors used Claude Code, according to an Axios report released Wednesday, citing letters shared in private.
Earlier this month, Anthropic disclosed that a hacking group linked to the Chinese state used its tool Claude Code to launch what the company described as the first large-scale cyber operation largely automated by an AI system.
Operating under the group name GTG-1002, the attackers orchestrated a campaign targeting around 30 organizations, with Claude Code handling most phases according to Anthropic: reconnaissance, vulnerability scanning, exploit creation, credential harvesting, and data exfiltration.
Chairing the follow-up investigation is Rep. Andrew Garbarino (R-NY) alongside two subcommittee heads.
The committee wanted to have Amodei detail exactly when Anthropic first detected the activity, how the attackers leveraged its models during different stages of the breach, and what safeguards failed or succeeded as the campaign went on. The hearing will also include Google Cloud and Quantum Xchange executives, per Axios.
US AI and Data Firms to Testify in Chinese AI Espionage Probe
