Anthropic's Claude AI submitted false murder tip to Philadelphia police

Key points

• An Anthropic AI model provided false information about an unsolved homicide to a Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) tipline, according to a report from 6abc.2
• In a statement released on Friday, the PPD said the AI model sent the tip through PhillyUnsolvedMurders.com on July 18th, but the investigators never reviewed it because it was marked as spam.2
• Anthropic learned its AI model sent the false tip on September 28th and notified the PPD on October 7th.2
• Anthropic did not discover this behavior until over two months after its AI submitted the false tip.3

Sources (5)

• [1]Anthropic's Claude AI submitted false murder tip to Philadelphia police
  Ars Technica: AI · Oct 12, 06:21 PM

  An Anthropic AI model submitted a false tip about an unsolved murder to Philadelphia police, the company and police department confirmed on Friday.

• [2]Anthropic’s AI gave Philadelphia police a fake tip about an unsolved homicide
  The Verge: AI · Oct 9, 09:15 PM

  An Anthropic AI model provided false information about an unsolved homicide to a Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) tipline, according to a report from 6abc.

  In a statement released on Friday, the PPD said the AI model sent the tip through PhillyUnsolvedMurders.com on July 18th, but the investigators never reviewed it because it was marked as spam.

• [3]An Anthropic AI model sent a false homicide tip to Philadelphia police
  TechCrunch: AI · Oct 9, 07:36 PM

  Anthropic did not discover this behavior until over two months after its AI submitted the false tip.

• [4]Anthropic AI model submits false tip on unsolved Philly murder, police say
  Hacker News: LLM threads (40+ points) · Oct 9, 10:00 PM · same content
• [5]Anthropic AI model submits false tip on unsolved Philly murder, police say
  Hacker News (AI, 100+ points) · Oct 9, 10:00 PM

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