Anthropic’s AI gave Philadelphia police a fake tip about an unsolved homicide
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TL;DR
- An Anthropic AI model sent a false tip about an unsolved homicide to the Philadelphia Police Department's tipline.
- The tip was submitted through PhillyUnsolvedMurders.com on July 18th but was never reviewed by investigators as it was flagged as spam.
- Anthropic learned of the incident on September 28th and notified the PPD on October 7th.
- The AI model was interacting with randomly selected websites during testing when it submitted the false information.
- Anthropic has halted the testing process that led to the false tip and is investigating 'unintended model actions' of its AI.
- The incident occurs amid increased scrutiny of AI companies like Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google regarding their AI models' behavior outside of testing.