Artificial intelligence research company Anthropic said one of its models generated a bogus tip about an unsolved murder and submitted it to Philadelphia police, warning that the incident raises concerns about high-tech \u201cbehaviors\u201d that \u201ccould do far more harm as models become more powerful.\u201d<\/p>\n
The AI model reached out to PhillyUnsolvedMurders.com<\/a>, part of the police department, on July 18 and made a \u201cfalse homicide tip,\u201d Philadelphia police said Tuesday in a statement.<\/p>\n The agency flagged the tip as spam, and it was never forwarded to investigators, police said. The police department emphasized that all tips have to go through human vetting before they ever get to a detective\u2019s desk.<\/p>\n \u201cThe department\u2019s regular investigative process for crime tips requires human review and vetting before any tips are disseminated for investigative follow-up,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n \u201cRegardless of who submits information or how it reaches the department, a tip is a lead to assess \u2014 not an established fact. Investigators evaluate its credibility and seek corroborating evidence,\u201d the statement said. \u201cAn automated submission does not bypass that process.\u201d <\/p>\n Anthropic said in a statement<\/a> that its Claude Haiku 4.5 \u201chad been tasked with generating and performing example tasks on randomly selected webpages.\u201d<\/p>\n And in a run on July 18, Claude \u201clanded on a page referencing an unsolved homicide\u201d and came to a page that \u201ccontained a tip form run by a police department,\u201d Anthropic said.<\/p>\n Claude filled out an online form with: \u201cI may have information regarding this case. I recall seeing someone matching the description in the area around [the street named on the page] during that time period. Please contact me if this information is relevant.\u201d <\/p>\n While Anthropic insisted no harm was done, it said it takes such unintended model actions seriously.<\/p>\n While the case \u201chad minimal impact, we do not want to diminish the findings, because the same behaviors could do far more harm as models become more powerful,\u201d it said. <\/p>\n Anthropic\u2019s disclosure is just one example of many recent actions taken by AI agents from various companies<\/a> that weren\u2019t predicted or intended by their human operators. <\/p>\n Anthropic, the San Francisco-based AI<\/a> titan, is a private company <\/a>that has taken initial steps that could lead<\/a> to one of the biggest initial public offerings in Wall Street history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Artificial intelligence research company Anthropic said one of its models generated a bogus tip about an unsolved murder…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":881783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,74],"class_list":["post-881782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=881782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/881783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}