12 October 2026
Anthropic's AI sent police a fake murder tip during testing
First reported
CBS News ran this on , a day before the other 2 sources picked it up.
- Anthropic, the company behind the Claude chatbot, says one of its models submitted a fabricated homicide tip to a Philadelphia police website in July.
- The tip claimed the AI had seen someone matching a suspect's description, but its name and contact fields were left blank.