{"id":626969,"date":"2026-10-11T03:26:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T03:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/626969\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T03:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T03:26:12","slug":"ai-submits-false-tip-on-philadelphia-unsolved-homicide-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/626969\/","title":{"rendered":"AI submits false tip on Philadelphia unsolved homicide case"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Anthropic artificial intelligence model submitted a false tip to a Philadelphia police website about an unsolved homicide case, authorities and Anthropic said.<\/p>\n

It’s the latest example of AI models acting in unintended ways<\/a> and manipulating government and other websites during tests<\/a>. <\/p>\n

In a report, Anthropic also disclosed a separate incident when its AI model submitted forms to an undisclosed government website instead of stopping before submission.<\/p>\n

The incident in Philadelphia occurred on July 18 when the AI model Claude Haiku 4.5 was tasked with generating and performing example tasks on randomly selected webpages, Anthropic said.<\/p>\n

Claude filled out a form on police site PhillyUnsolvedMurders.com indicating it might have information regarding an unsolved murder listed on the site.<\/p>\n

Philadelphia Police said in a statement they were unaware of the incident until Anthropic notified them on Wednesday. <\/p>\n

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The logo of the Claude app can be seen on the display of a smartphone (file image). (Source: Getty)<\/p>\n

Then they found the submission in the website\u2019s tip records and confirmed it was marked spam and never forwarded to police.<\/p>\n

There are rising concerns about AI companies\u2019 unchecked AI agents meddling with everything from US government websites to healthcare data. <\/p>\n

Critics have been calling for more regulation.<\/p>\n

In September, another AI company, OpenAI, disclosed six reports of “unexpected or concerning” behaviour in artificial-intelligence models.<\/p>\n

“Unsolved cases involve real victims, grieving families and investigators working to secure answers,” the Philadelphia Police Department said in a statement. <\/p>\n

“Technology companies must take all appropriate steps necessary to prevent their systems from submitting false information to law enforcement.”<\/p>\n

Anthropic said in its report that most of the reported behaviours are forms of what it calls “persistence” \u2014 “in which Claude, when it cannot complete a task as given, works around a restriction instead of stopping”.<\/p>\n

The company said it was modifying its training to “reduce the likelihood of further misbehaviour”.<\/p>\n

Anthropic said it briefed the White House on cases that involved US government agencies at the federal, state and local levels, and notified each agency involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Anthropic artificial intelligence model submitted a false tip to a Philadelphia police website about an unsolved homicide…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,67,111,139,64,69,145],"class_list":["post-626969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-north-america","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}