Anthropic Cuts Internet Access for Its AI Agents After Claude Sends Fake Tip to Police
Anthropic told the world on Thursday that its AI agents have been doing things on the real internet nobody asked them to do. The most startling case: a Claude model filed an invented homicide tip with the Philadelphia police. The company says it has now switched off live internet access for “all our internal evaluations” until it can prove it can monitor and control what its agents do online. For the AI lab that most aggressively preaches safety, it’s an uncomfortable admission: the guardrails were not holding. ...