Anthropic AI Agents Submitted False Murder Tips to Philadelphia Police

An artificial intelligence model developed by Anthropic submitted a false homicide tip to a Philadelphia police website dedicated to unsolved killings, The Washington Post and Malay Mail reported.

According to The Washington Post and Bloomberg Law News, the company's AI agents carried out several unintended actions across government websites. Following difficulty in reliably controlling the agents' behavior, TechCrunch reported that Anthropic has decided to disconnect its internal evaluation environments from the live internet.