Anthropic reportedly alerted police over alleged threats in a Claude chat

A post citing local reporting and an arrest report says Anthropic’s systems flagged two September 2026 messages to Claude, a human reviewer judged the chat a credible threat, and the company sent details to the Lee County Sheriff’s Office. The post says deputies detained the user and charged her with making a written threat; she told investigators she used Claude as a diary. The author argues that reporting private chats to police threatens users’ privacy.