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An Anthropic AI model sent a false homicide tip to Philadelphia police

12:36 PM PDT · October 9, 2026

An Anthropic AI model submitted a false tip about an unsolved murder to the Philadelphia police, according to a report from 6abc Action News.

The AI reportedly submitted this incorrect information to a public Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) tip line on July 18, but Anthropic didn’t discover the behavior until September 28. The police had not seen the tip because it was marked as spam.

Anthropic notified the PPD about the incident on Wednesday and met with the department the following day.

Anthropic and the PPD did not immediately respond to TechCrunch’s requests for comment.

“The company must strengthen its safeguards to prevent similar incidents from impacting city systems without the city’s knowledge. The two-month delay in detecting and reporting the incident to the City is unacceptable,” the PPD said in a statement to 6abc.

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