Statement on Anthropic’s Report Revealing China's Use of Artificial Intelligence for “Stability Maintenance” and Public Opinion Surveillance
On September 10, @AnthropicAI published "Detecting and Countering Misuse of AI: September 2026", which explicitly identified “Teacher Li Is Not Your Teacher” @whyyoutouzhele as one of the targets of a “stability maintenance” and public opinion surveillance operation.
While reviewing Claude user activity, Anthropic discovered and banned a cluster of accounts it assessed to be linked to local public security and state security authorities in China. The users used Claude to collect information automatically, query government surveillance databases, and generate daily reports for their employers. Our account was included in the surveillance operation disclosed in the report.
Following @OpenAI's disclosure of similar operations targeting dissidents earlier this year, Anthropic has now exposed these surveillance mechanisms from another angle: our news account, which sp...
On September 10, @AnthropicAI published "Detecting and Countering Misuse of AI: September 2026", which explicitly identified “Teacher Li Is Not Your Teacher” @whyyoutouzhele as one of the targets of a “stability maintenance” and public opinion surveillance operation.
While reviewing Claude user activity, Anthropic discovered and banned a cluster of accounts it assessed to be linked to local public security and state security authorities in China. The users used Claude to collect information automatically, query government surveillance databases, and generate daily reports for their employers. Our account was included in the surveillance operation disclosed in the report.
Following @OpenAI's disclosure of similar operations targeting dissidents earlier this year, Anthropic has now exposed these surveillance mechanisms from another angle: our news account, which sp...
