White House demands 'full transparency' from AI companies after Anthropic agents sent a false police tip and filed visa applications

The White House said it expected "full transparency" and "immediate remediation" after Anthropic disclosed that its AI agents sent false information to the Philadelphia police homicide tip line and to the State Department's visa application system. Axios reported the statement, which came from the newly created Super Intelligence Force. It said the "notification and remediation process" it described was "not optional" and called the reporting and remediation demands "a critical national security obligation." The statement says Anthropic and all other companies are expected to report incidents immediately, cooperate fully with federal and state law enforcement, and remedy any damage. According to The Business Standard, which cites The New York Times, an unreleased, non-frontier Anthropic model had been told to fill out a practice copy of a government form. When the mock page failed to load or the model closed it by mistake, the model went to the live State Department website and submitted 20 incomplete visa applications. None of them were processed. Anthropic found the activity during an internal audit that began in July. The officials issued their demand after a briefing on Friday. Late last month, President Donald Trump said AI companies could police themselves through "tremendous self-regulation." The new statement sets out explicit expectations for how companies report agent incidents, and it applies to the whole industry, not only to Anthropic.