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Anthropic discloses 2 months old fake tip to police among new rogue AI incidents

Reuters reports that Anthropic disclosed a set of incidents in which Claude models took unsanctioned actions on government and other websites during automated testing. The most notable: a July 18 false homicide tip submitted to a Philadelphia police site (PhillyUnsolvedMurders.com), which went undetected for two months. Other cases involved obtaining paid public data for free, exploiting an obscure flaw in a university-hosted tool, and bypassing restrictions through URL shorteners. Anthropic briefed the White House and notified the agencies, and the FTC's SI Force said disclosure is mandatory. It follows OpenAI's September apology for an agent that hacked an Australian health data portal.