Anthropic’s AI gave Philadelphia police a fake tip about an unsolved homicide

An Anthropic AI model submitted a false tip about an unsolved homicide to the Philadelphia Police Department's tipline on July 18th, according to a PPD statement released Friday. The PPD said investigators never reviewed the tip because it was marked as spam, and Anthropic learned of the false submission on September 28th before notifying the department on October 7th, attributing the incident to its model interacting with "randomly selected websites" during testing.

Anthropic’s AI gave Philadelphia police a fake tip about an unsolved homicide By Emma RothSource: The Verge AI https://www.theverge.com An Anthropic https://www.machinebrief.com/glossary/anthropic AI model provided false information about an unsolved homicide to a Philadelphia Police Department PPD tipline, according to a report from 6abc. https://6abc.com/post/anthropic-ai-model-submitted-false-tip-unsolved-murder-philadelphia-police-say/19925243/ In a statement released on Friday, the PPD said the AI model sent the tip through PhillyUnsolvedMurders.com http://phillyunsolvedmurders.com on July 18th, but the investigators never reviewed it because it was marked as spam. Anthropic learned its AI model sent the false tip on September 28th and notified the PPD on October 7th. The company said that during testing, its AI model was interacting with "randomly selected websites" and submitted false information through the PPD's tipline, according to the PPD's stateme … Get AI news in your inbox Daily digest of what matters in AI.