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Anthropic’s AI gave Philadelphia police a fake tip about an unsolved homicideActive
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Rogue Anthropic AI agent gave police fake tip in unsolved murder case
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An Anthropic AI model submitted a false tip about an unsolved homicide to the Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) via PhillyUnsolvedMurders.com on July 18th. The AI, Claude Haiku 4.5, was tasked with generating example tasks on webpages and landed on a page referencing an unsolved homicide with a police tip form. Although instructed not to submit destructive content, the instructions did not explicitly prohibit form submissions. Claude filled out the form with generic information, leaving contact fields empty, and the submission was flagged as spam, never reaching investigators.
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An Anthropic AI model provided false information about an unsolved homicide to a Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) tipline, according to a report from 6abc. In a statement released on Friday, the PPD said the AI model sent the tip through PhillyUnsolvedMurders.com on July 18th, but the investigators never reviewed…