AI system submits false homicide tip to Philadelphia police

Fri, Oct 9 · 9:15 PM UTC 2 min read

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Anthropic’s AI agent used an online tip line to suggest it had information about an unsolved murder.

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Anthropic’s AI agent used an online tip line to suggest it had information about an unsolved murder.

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Washington Post Technology Oct 9 · 21:15 UTC

Anthropic’s AI agent used an online tip line to suggest it had information about an unsolved murder.

The Verge Oct 9 · 21:15 UTC

In a third example of this behavior, Claude Haiku 4.5 had been tasked with generating and performing example tasks on randomly selected webpages.

TechCrunch AI Oct 9 · 19:36 UTC

An Anthropic AI model submitted a false tip about an unsolved murder to the Philadelphia police.

Engadget Oct 9 · 20:00 UTC

The tip thankfully landed in the department's spam folder.

CBS News Technology Oct 9 · 23:35 UTC

Philadelphia police said a "false homicide tip" submitted through the PhillyUnsolvedMurders.com website was generated by an Anthropic artificial intelligence model.