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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Mae Anderson

Anthropic's Claude AI submits a false tip on a Philadelphia unsolved homicide case

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An Anthropic artificial intelligence model submitted a false tip to a Philadelphia police website about an unsolved homicide case, authorities and Anthropic said.

It's the latest example of AI models acting on their own and manipulating government and other websites in ways testers did not intend. In a report Friday, Anthropic also disclosed a separate incident when its AI model submitted forms to an undisclosed government website instead of stopping before submission.

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