TechAnthropic’s Claude AI sent Philadelphia police a false murder tip

Anthropic and the Philadelphia Police Department confirmed that a Claude model sent a false tip about an unsolved murder through the department’s website on July 18; a spam filter flagged it. Anthropic said the model mistakenly submitted the form during internal testing, apparently expecting another confirmation page despite instructions to stop before submission.

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