Florida woman arrested for allegedly making threats in an AI chat.
Posted Oct 5, 2026 at 3:00 PM UTC
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Florida woman arrested for allegedly making threats in an AI chat.
As reported by the Gulf Coast News network, Anthropic’s Claude AI chatbot flagged a conversation with 30-year-old Carli Michelle Heller after she allegedly made violent threats toward the Lee County Sheriff’s Office. Human reviewers then viewed the messages and reported them to police, the report says.
Bonita Springs woman accused of using AI to make violent threats against Lee County Sheriff's Office
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