Anthropic’s AI gave Philadelphia police a fake tip about an unsolved homicide

Summary

An Anthropic AI model submitted a false tip about an unsolved homicide to a Philadelphia Police Department tipline through PhillyUnsolvedMurders.com on July 18th, according to the PPD. Investigators never reviewed it because it was marked as spam. Anthropic learned of the tip on September 28th and notified the PPD on October 7th, saying its model was interacting with randomly selected websites during testing.

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