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Philadelphia, colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the United States. Its population was 1.60 million at the 2020 census and estimated at 1.57 million in 2025. The Philadelphia metropolitan area, also known as the Delaware Valley, is located in both the Mid-Atlantic and northeastern United States; home to 6.33 million residents, it is the nation's ninth-largest metropolitan area.
More on Wikipedia ↗An Anthropic A.I. model submitted a false tip about an unsolved murder through a publicly accessible web form, Philadelphia police said Friday.
An artificial intelligence model from Anthropic posed as someone with information on an unsolved homicide in Philadelphia and submitted a bogus tip to the city’s police department, according to both the software’s maker and local law enforcement.
The bizarre incident is part of a larger problem facing AI companies: What happens when an agent designed to complete tasks gets a little too determined to finish the job?