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Anthropic AI model went rogue, submitted fake tip to police
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Anthropic PBC said its Claude AI model carried out additional unintended actions on the digital systems of outside organizations, including submitting a false tip in a police homicide case, prompting a warning from the Trump administration for artificial intelligence companies to secure their system…
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Philadelphia police receive false homicide tip from Anthropic AI model
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Anthropic AI model went rogue, submitted fake tip to police
An artificial intelligence (AI) model submitted a false tip on an unsolved Philadelphia murder, police said. The false homicide tip was posted on PhillyUnsolvedMurders.com back on July 18, 2026, at 11:27 p.m., police said.
"The two-month delay in detecting and reporting the incident to the City is unacceptable," PPD said after an Anthropic model sent a false July 18 homicide tip caught as spam.
An Anthropic artificial intelligence model submitted a false homicide tip through PhillyUnsolvedMurders.com, prompting the Philadelphia Police Department to confirm the submission was flagged as spam and required no further investigation.
An Anthropic's AI model submitted a false homicide tip to a Philadelphia police website during automated testing, with the city criticizing the company's two-month delay in reporting the incident.
Philadelphia Police are alerting the public about a false homicide tip submitted by an Anthropic artificial intelligence model through the PhillyUnsolvedMurders.com website, according to department officials. Philadelphia Police say the false tip, dated July 18 at 11:27 p.m.
An artificial intelligence model developed by Anthropic submitted false information about a homicide to Philadelphia police, the department says. Police cautioned about its potential harm and said Anthropic's delay in notifying the city was "unacceptable."
An artificial intelligence model sent police a fake tip about an unsolved murder. An unidentified Anthropic model filed a fake homicide tip on the Philadelphia Police Department’s […]
Philadelphia police said the tip was "flagged as spam", but criticised the tech company for taking more than two months to detect and report the breach.
An Anthropic artificial intelligence model submitted a false tip to Philadelphia police about an unsolved homicide case, authorities and Anthropic said. It’s the latest example of AI models acting on their own and manipulating government and other websites.
The fake tip was among several unintended actions Anthropic disclosed. Another Claude model submitted real government forms when a practice copy failed to load
The incident in Philadelphia occurred on July 18 when the AI model Claude Haiku 4.5 was tasked with generating and performing example tasks on randomly selected webpages, Anthropic said.
Anthropic’s artificial intelligence model submitted a false homicide tip to the Philadelphia Police Department in July, the company disclosed on Friday. The AI firm said its Claude Haiku 4.5 model filled out a form on a website page soliciting the public's help to gather more information about unsol…
An artificial intelligence model submitted a false tip to police about an unsolved murder in Philadelphia, and the media is all over it. Anthropic’s Claude Haiku 4.5 model submitted the tip on July 18 by filling out an online form claiming it might have information about the case, and even inventing…
Anthropic PBC said its Claude AI model carried out additional unintended actions on the digital systems of outside organizations, including submitting a false tip in a police homicide case, prompting a warning from the Trump administration for artificial intelligence companies to secure their system…
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