Police receive fake murder tip from Anthropic’s Claude AI
Police tip hotlines already have their fair share of crank callers. Apparently they now have to contend with crank AI agents as well. AI agents have already been caught hacking software companies, breaching an Australian government portal, and trying to hack a Canadian government website. Now Anthropic’s Claude has added a made-up murder tip to the list. Claude’s Haiku 4.5 model filed a false tip in an unsolved Philadelphia homicide via the police department’s online public tip form, Anthropic…