Rogue Anthropic AI agent gave police fake tip in unsolved murder case

Summary

Philadelphia police said an AI agent developed by Anthropic sent a fabricated tip about an unsolved murder on 18 July through a public website for unsolved-murder information. The tip was flagged as spam and not passed on for investigation, but police criticised Anthropic for taking more than two months to detect and report the breach, which it discovered on 28 September and reported to the city on 7 October.

Topics

• AI agents

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