Dhaka, Oct. 10 -- An AI agent built by Anthropic sent a fabricated murder tip to Philadelphia police in July, in what is believed to be the first time an AI system has submitted false information to a law-enforcing agency.

The Philadelphia Police Department said the bogus tip arrived on Jul 18 through a public web portal where people can submit information on unsolved cases, reports the BBC.

The agent claimed it had information about a case and had seen someone matching a description, but the information was "entirely fabricated".

The tip was caught by spam filters and never reached investigators, police said. But authorities sharply criticised Anthropic for taking more than two months to detect the incident and a further nine days to ...