Politics · October 10, 2026
Anthropic Agents Tried to Fill Out Visa Forms on State Dept. Website
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Anthropic recently disclosed that its AI model, Claude Haiku 4.5, accidentally submitted a false homicide tip to the Philadelphia Police Department's website. The incident occurred during automated testing where the model was generating example content for randomly selected webpages. Philadelphia police confirmed the tip was flagged as spam and did not interfere with any investigations or compromise department data. Anthropic has since suspended the specific testing process that led to the error.
Anthropic recently disclosed that its AI model, Claude Haiku 4.5, accidentally submitted a false homicide tip to the Philadelphia Police Department's website. The incident occurred during automated testing where the model was generating example content for randomly selected webpages. Philadelphia police confirmed the tip was flagged as spam and did not interfere with any investigations or compromise department data. Anthropic has since suspended the specific testing process that led to the error.