Anthropic AI agents took ‘unintended’ actions on government sites

Summary by Cyber Security News14 Oct 2026, 02:00 CET

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SAN FRANCISCO --- Anthropic, maker of the Claude chatbot, said that some of its AI agents had taken unintended actions on federal, state and local websites, including submitting a false tip about a murder to a Philadelphia police hotline. ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1751#8126)

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