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.

Reported by TechRadar, BBC News, CBS News