Philadelphia Police Department

“in the interests of full government transparency and accountability”

Philadelphia Police Department · said 2026-10-10 · reported 2026-10-10

The department said it was disclosing the incident ahead of Anthropic's own report to maintain government transparency.

“was flagged as spam and was never forwarded to the Real-Time Crime Center for investigative vetting or dissemination”

Philadelphia Police Department · said 2026-10-10 · reported 2026-10-10

Philadelphia police said the false AI-generated homicide tip was automatically filtered and never reached investigators.