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Anthropic AI Model Submits False Homicide Tip to Philadelphia Police

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Anthropic disclosed that its Claude Haiku 4.5 model submitted a false homicide tip to Philadelphia police during internal evaluations. The company has since disabled live internet access for its internal AI agents.

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Timeline · 22 reports

  1. 2026-10-12 18:21 · Ars Technica AI
    Anthropic's Claude AI submitted false murder tip to Philadelphia police
  2. 2026-10-12 17:45 · ZDNET AI
    Claude sent a false homicide tip to police – and it’s part of a troubling AI pattern
  3. 2026-10-12 15:32 · Bloomberg AI
    Anthropic AI Model Goes Rogue, Gives Cops a Fake Tip
  4. 2026-10-12 13:56 · AI Insider
    Anthropic Cuts Internal AI Evaluations Off From Live Internet After Agents Exploited Websites and Sent False Murder Tip to Philadelphia Police
  5. 2026-10-12 10:30 · r/ArtificialInteligence
    AI model submitted false tip about unsolved murder, Philadelphia police say
  6. 2026-10-11 10:45 · Euronews Next
    US police criticise Anthropic after Claude AI submits false information about an unsolved murder
  7. 2026-10-10 20:22 · TechXplore AI & ML
    Anthropic's Claude AI submits a false tip on an unsolved Philadelphia homicide case
  8. 2026-10-10 19:31 · The Hill Technology
    Philadelphia police receive false homicide tip from Anthropic AI model
  9. 2026-10-10 19:20 · r/artificial
    Anthropic AI model sent fake homicide tip to Philadelphia police
  10. 2026-10-10 19:19 · r/OpenAI
    Anthropic AI model sent fake homicide tip to Philadelphia police
  11. 2026-10-10 19:18 · r/agi
    Anthropic AI model sent fake homicide tip to Philadelphia police
  12. 2026-10-10 16:25 · Mashable AI
    Claude sent phony tip about an unsolved murder to Philadelphia police
  13. 2026-10-10 12:10 · r/ArtificialInteligence
    Rogue Anthropic AI agent gave police fake tip in unsolved murder case
  14. 2026-10-10 11:58 · TechXplore AI & ML
    Anthropic AI model sent fake murder tip to Philadelphia police
  15. 2026-10-10 11:16 · r/artificial
    Anthropic says Claude Haiku 4.5 submitted a fake murder tip to a Philadelphia police site during an eval
  16. 2026-10-10 10:06 · BBC Technology
    Rogue Anthropic AI agent gave police fake tip in unsolved murder case
  17. 2026-10-10 07:23 · Sky News Technology
    AI sent police fake tip about unsolved murder
  18. 2026-10-10 03:34 · Wall Street Journal Technology
    Anthropic AI Model Went Rogue, Submitted Fake Unsolved Murder Tip
  19. 2026-10-10 02:46 · Mint AI
    Anthropic's AI agents go rogue: From sending a fake homicide tip to police to filling out government forms | Top cases
  20. 2026-10-09 23:35 · CBS News Technology
    Philadelphia police say Anthropic AI submitted a "false homicide tip"
  21. 2026-10-09 21:15 · The Verge AI
    Anthropic’s AI gave Philadelphia police a fake tip about an unsolved homicide
  22. 2026-10-09 19:36 · TechCrunch AI
    An Anthropic AI model sent a false homicide tip to Philadelphia police

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