Anthropic's Claude Lied As Fake Witness in False Police Report, California Issues Cease and Desist to Human VS Robot Fights, OpenAI Bans Russian and Iranian Fake Reporters + 7 More
An Anthropic AI agent filed a false homicide tip with Philadelphia police, completely autonomously, fabricating a witness source, and the company didn't discover it for over two months. The only reason nothing worse came of it was a spam filter. Days later, at a New York City Council hearing, representatives from OpenAI, Google, Meta, and Anthropic were asked directly: will your AI agents always follow safety rules? Every single one declined to say yes. One former Anthropic researcher went further, telling the hearing it's now more likely than not that humanity loses control of these systems…
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