Noted hacker Ben Hawkes joins Anthropic to lead Frontier Red Team's cybersecurity mission
logangraham · x · 2026-09-30
Ben Hawkes has joined Anthropic to lead the Frontier Red Team's cybersecurity mission. Logan Graham says the team now meets daily on rewriting the practice of cybersecurity, with a personal estimate of a 1-2 year window to make a secure transition to AGI — rewriting all code, securing everything, letting Claude defend everything. Hawkes frames it as a chance to make 40 years of hacking a historical oddity.
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