Sam Wallace is Head of Corporate Governance, Risk, and Responsible Practice at Partnership on AI (PAI), which published the disclosure recommendations discussed in this article. Dunstan Allison-Hope is an independent consultant, and PAI is among his clients.Earlier this month, Anthropic published its latest Threat Intelligence Report, outlining real-world threats the company disrupted and the trends these cases reveal. These threats spanned topics including surveillance (such as a domestic surveillance system monitoring roughly 25 million SIM cards in Mali), cybersecurity and electronic warfare (such as developing software for electronic warfare and suppression of air defenses in China), and conventional weapons (such as developing guidance, navigation, and control software in Yemen).Anthropic publishes Threat Intelligence Reports to help governments, cybersecurity teams, and peer AI developers identify and disrupt similar threats. The reports also inform evidence-based AI policy by grounding discussions in real-world cases and are part of Anthropic’s approach to corporate accountability.Amid all the discussion about existential risk, reports like this remind us of the real near-term impacts and how they may evolve. As AI moves into more industries — from healthcare and education to infrastructure and aerospace — it creates new risks and opportunities. The concrete case studies offer far more specificity than “AI-will-kill-us-all” and show how addressing near-term risks also…

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