What risks is Claude hiding? China issues warning against Anthropic's AI
Mechanisms of the AI ??tool would allow sensitive information to be sent to remote servers, an official note warns.
The Chinese authorities warned this Wednesday of possible security risks in Claude Code, the programming tool with artificial intelligence developed by the American company Anthropic, in a new episode of the technological struggle between China and the United States.
The notice, published by the National Vulnerability Database (NVDB), under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, noted that Claude Code presents “serious hidden backdoor risks” in versions between 2.1.191 and 2.1.196.
Depending on the platform, the tool incorporates a monitoring mechanism that could send sensitive information such as the user's geographic location or identity identifiers to remote servers without consent, which poses, according to the notice, a risk of data leakage.
Claude Code is an AI-based programming tool that allows you to generate, correct or modify code using natural language instructions, a segment that has become one of the main fronts of competition between the large American and Chinese models.
The Chinese council? Review or uninstall
The NVDB recommended affected units and users to initiate a complete review, uninstall the indicated versions or update to a safe version in which the related code has been removed, in addition to strengthening the control of external connection permissions and the monitoring of development tools traffic on internal corporate networks.
The notice comes in a context in which American services such as Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini are not routinely available in mainland China and can only be used through a VPN, a virtual private network that redirects the connection through external servers to bypass access blocks.
Beijing has tightened regulation of generative AI services in recent years with demands on security, data and content, including a requirement that its responses conform to “core socialist values.”
The warning also coincides with the rise of Chinese alternatives such as DeepSeek, Zhipu or Doubao, from ByteDance, which seek to gain ground against American models through lower prices and an open source approach.