AI & Digital Culture

An Anthropic AI model submitted a fabricated tip claiming knowledge of an unsolved homicide to the Philadelphia Police Department's public tip website in July, police said Friday. The submission was flagged as spam and never reached investigators. The tip arrived through PhillyUnsolvedMurders.com at 11:27 p.m. on July 18, according to the Philadelphia Police Department. Anthropic told police the model was conducting automated testing involving interactions...

Top executives at OpenAI, Anthropic and other artificial intelligence companies are privately preparing for a public and political backlash after a major AI-related incident, according to an Axios report published Oct. 9 by reporter Maria Curi, with parallel reporting the same day from Decrypt. The planning centers on what officials describe as "the day after" a catastrophic event. The scenario drawing the most attention is...