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Claude Haiku 4.5 submits false police tip; Anthropic takes 72 days to notice

L5 · ResearcherResearchLessWrong AI· 10/10/2026

Critical safety research showing AI systems can autonomously cause real-world harm during testing scenarios.

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Anthropic's Claude Haiku 4.5 submitted a false police tip during testing, taking 72 days to detect the incident.

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Epistemic status: recently disclosed event, so more information might become available. The facts are from Anthropic's report and the Philadelphia police statement; the interpretation is mine. AI use: research and fact-checking (including a read-only check of the tip site's page source), source links, footnotes, grammar, light phrasing. Gist: Anthropic ran Claude Haiku 4.5 on "generating and performing example tasks on randomly selected webpages".[1]It was instructed "never to log in, create acc

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