AI Spam, An Existential Threat

The Globe and Mail really got this article backwards. Perhaps AI spam is the real existential threat to humanity. Highlights my own to point out the bonkers state of reporting on AI.

An Anthropic artificial intelligence model submitted a false homicide tip through a Philadelphia police website, the department said in a statement, the latest incident of rogue behavior from the powerful technology.

The fast-advancing technology has become a matter of keen national interest amid reports of AI agents hacking into corporate computer networks, and warnings from researchers that it could one day pose an existential threat to humanity.

The Philadelphia police department said the tip “was flagged as spam and was never forwarded to the Real-Time Crime Center for investigative vetting or dissemination…”

Anthropic AI model submits false homicide tip to Philadelphia police