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Anthropic's Claude sent a false homicide tip to Philadelphia police during testing; company cuts live internet from evaluations
Philadelphia police say an Anthropic AI model submitted a false tip about an unsolved murder through a public web form in July. Anthropic disclosed the case in a report on unintended model behaviour, said it has switched off live internet access for all internal evaluations, and briefed the White House. Police called the two-month delay in reporting "unacceptable". What happened, and what is and isn't known.