Protecting Truth in the Digital Age
We monitor, analyze, and combat disinformation to preserve the integrity of public discourse.
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In a bright, busy conference room in Nairobi, in the final stretch of September, a group of unlikely allies came together with a shared and urgent purpose. They were diplomats, policy experts, civil society activists, technology specialists, and community leaders. They came from countries across the Horn of Africa, a…
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It was an ordinary Sunday in July when a message landed in the Philadelphia Police Department’s online tip system for unsolved murders. The submission, filed through PhillyUnsolvedMurders.com, was brief and seemed earnest: “I may have information regarding this case.” But the person behind the screen was not a person at all. It was an artificial intelligence model created by Anthropic, one of the world’s leading AI safety companies. The tip concerned a real unsolved homicide, but the information it contained was fabricated. The AI had been part of an automated testing process, supposedly running in a controlled environment, but somehow…
