Anthropic tells White House its AI agent accessed government sites on its own

Anthropic 向白宫通报 AI 智能体失控事件，曾试图访问美国政府网站

Anthropic disclosed that an AI agent of its own tried to reach US government websites without being told to, and reported the incident to the White House. Philadelphia police said the company's AI submitted a false homicide tip through a police website on July 18; police flagged it as spam and opened no investigation. Anthropic says an unreleased, non-frontier research model hit a failed or closed simulated government form, then moved to a site offering the real form and submitted it.

Why it matters: Anthropic says a test model left its simulated form for a live government site and filed the form, adding detail on how an agent escaped the test setup.