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Human Rights Watch and the U.S. State Department have separately documented Malian security-service abuses; those reports do not independently audit Lakana 360. Population-scale deployment figures remain Anthropic’s assessment.","ledger_type":"harm","primary_domain_id":"8b844c0d-c1ac-4f54-920a-34321e45582d","event_status":"provisional","event_date":"2026-09-10T00:00:00.000Z","discovery_date":"2026-09-10T00:00:00.000Z","first_published_date":"2026-09-10T00:00:00.000Z","last_reviewed_date":"2026-09-10T00:00:00.000Z","geographic_scope":"Mali","affected_population":"Mobile subscribers in Mali, reported by Anthropic as roughly 25 million SIM cards","base_impact_tier":3,"base_score":"10.00","attribution_multiplier":"0.5000","evidence_multiplier":"0.5000","realization_multiplier":"0.6500","durability_multiplier":"0.7000","current_event_score":"1.137500","confidence_level":"medium","score_explanation":"A national interception platform is major-to-historic in scale; this ledger keeps tier 3 until the 25 million SIM figure is independently confirmed. Claude was the engineering workforce, not the deployed inference stack (0.50). First-party intel (0.50). Realization is a reported built and locally deployed system Anthropic could not shut down (0.65). Durability is high if it remains in operation.","methodology_version_id":"d7881163-fb23-4e71-8625-bac1a8662c0f","original_methodology_version_id":"d7881163-fb23-4e71-8625-bac1a8662c0f","published_at":"2026-09-10T00:00:00.000Z","created_at":"2026-09-13T23:22:50.724Z","updated_at":"2026-09-13T23:22:50.724Z","flags":[],"domain_name":"Safety","domain_slug":"safety","methodology_version":"0.1"},"contributions":[{"id":"b04b036c-8b8c-4ab6-b1b7-9cb4164bd81f","event_id":"379cd01f-b361-4bf1-b5b0-b6308f543b2d","model_id":"059c33b6-fc2e-4d3d-acdb-c0d966ee5e6e","role_description":"Used as the primary software-engineering workforce to design Lakana 360 for Mali’s state intelligence service.","attribution_multiplier":"0.5000","credit_share":"1.0000","contribution_score":"1.137500","attribution_rationale":"Anthropic says one Claude subscriber built the platform; a human consultant directed the work and local models later ran it.","attribution_confidence":"medium","first_used_date":"2026-01-01T00:00:00.000Z","model_version_if_known":null,"review_status":"approved","created_at":"2026-09-13T23:22:50.724Z","model_slug":"claude","model_name":"Claude","identity_class":"unknown","is_internal":false,"family_name":"Claude","family_slug":"anthropic-claude","organization_name":"Anthropic","organization_slug":"anthropic"}],"sources":[{"id":"662088b3-30bf-4d47-9b52-af1efbeff3d4","event_id":"379cd01f-b361-4bf1-b5b0-b6308f543b2d","url":"https://www.anthropic.com/threat-intelligence-report-september-2026","canonical_url":"https://www.anthropic.com/threat-intelligence-report-september-2026","source_type":"developer_announcement","publisher":"Anthropic","author":null,"publication_date":"2026-09-10T00:00:00.000Z","retrieved_at":"2026-09-13T23:22:50.724Z","title":"Countering misuse of AI: September 2026","excerpt":null,"content_hash":null,"source_reliability_class":"low","is_primary_source":true,"is_independent":false,"is_peer_reviewed":false,"archived_url":null,"created_at":"2026-09-13T23:22:50.724Z"},{"id":"78483a8e-f1e0-4f14-8083-40eba352e0ff","event_id":"379cd01f-b361-4bf1-b5b0-b6308f543b2d","url":"https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/02/13/mali-au-action-needed-end-crackdown-opposition-dissent","canonical_url":"https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/02/13/mali-au-action-needed-end-crackdown-opposition-dissent","source_type":"other","publisher":"Human Rights Watch","author":null,"publication_date":"2025-02-13T00:00:00.000Z","retrieved_at":"2026-09-13T23:22:50.724Z","title":"Mali: AU Action Needed To End Crackdown on Opposition, Dissent","excerpt":null,"content_hash":null,"source_reliability_class":"medium","is_primary_source":false,"is_independent":true,"is_peer_reviewed":false,"archived_url":null,"created_at":"2026-09-13T23:22:50.724Z"}],"claims":[{"id":"45f70cfa-dd13-4c20-9fa7-8347b59d187c","event_id":"379cd01f-b361-4bf1-b5b0-b6308f543b2d","claim_text":"Anthropic reports that Claude was used to engineer Lakana 360, a Mali surveillance platform designed to monitor mobile operators at population scale.","claim_type":"outcome","claim_status":"supported","confidence_score":null,"created_at":"2026-09-13T23:22:50.724Z","updated_at":"2026-09-13T23:22:50.724Z"},{"id":"77c5a741-441a-4aa0-aa74-21cd1e308841","event_id":"379cd01f-b361-4bf1-b5b0-b6308f543b2d","claim_text":"Independent auditors have confirmed that 25 million SIM cards are currently monitored by Lakana 360.","claim_type":"significance","claim_status":"disputed","confidence_score":null,"created_at":"2026-09-13T23:22:50.724Z","updated_at":"2026-09-13T23:22:50.724Z"}],"revisions":[{"id":"31089f21-d875-432c-8b11-db223366b1af","event_id":"379cd01f-b361-4bf1-b5b0-b6308f543b2d","model_id":null,"previous_score":"0.000000","new_score":"1.137500","previous_factors":{},"new_factors":{"evidence":0.5,"base_score":10,"durability":0.7,"attribution":0.5,"realization":0.65},"change_reason":"Imported events under methodology 0.1.","trigger_type":"editorial_import","trigger_source_ids":null,"reviewer_id":null,"review_status":"published","created_at":"2026-09-13T23:22:50.724Z"}],"secondary":[{"name":"Public Infrastructure","slug":"public-infrastructure"}]},"methodology_version":"0.1"}