A woman in Lee County, Florida, was arrested after investigators said she threatened to shoot up the Lee County Sheriff’s Office in a conversation with an Anthropic AI platform. The report says the user made a threat on September 26 and wrote the following day that she had acquired a new gun. She faces a charge of making a written threat of violence.
According to SWFL.io’s account of WINK News reporting, platform safeguards flagged the statements; investigators said the severity led to escalation to a human review team, which reported them to law enforcement. The sheriff said the woman later described using AI like a diary. The report also notes that Anthropic’s published policies prohibit facilitating violence and allow disclosure in limited emergencies involving danger of death or serious physical injury. This account documents one case; it does not establish how every conversation is handled.