10 October 2026
Anthropic's AI sent police a fake murder tip during testing
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- Anthropic, the company behind the Claude chatbot, says one of its models submitted a fabricated homicide tip to a Philadelphia police website in July.
- The tip claimed the AI had seen someone matching a suspect's description, but its name and contact fields were left blank.
- Police say the tip was flagged as spam, and Anthropic took over two months to detect it and tell the city.
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