Artificial intelligence: AI from Anthropic submitted a fake report to the police site

San Francisco. In a test run, artificial intelligence from the developer company Anthropic submitted a false tip to a police website to solve unsolved murder cases. In another incident, the AI ​​software filled out forms on a US government website, Anthropic revealed in a blog post. According to media reports, there were 20 visa applications to the US State Department. In the past few weeks, various unplanned activities have become known, especially from AI from the ChatGPT developer and Anthropic rival OpenAI.

The companies are currently training so-called AI agents - i.e. software that is supposed to fulfill various tasks largely autonomously on behalf of the users. The incidents listed by Anthropic come directly from attempts to prepare AI for all sorts of online tasks.

Anthropics AI submitted the fake tip about an unsolved murder via a Philadelphia police website. “I may have information about this case,” the software wrote. “I remember seeing someone matching the description” in the area at the time of the crime, it said. However, the police website did not contain any description of the perpetrator. The software also left the contact field open - and your submission was marked as spam.