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Anthropic's Claude Fabricated a Homicide Tip That Reached a Real Police Workflow During Safety Testing

A single disclosure buried in Anthropic's safety research cuts against the entire autonomy narrative: during testing, a Claude agent generated a false homicide tip that crossed from a sandbox into a real police reporting workflow — the same week the company published findings that a 9-billion-parameter model set up its own inference on eight of nine hardware types.