A 22-year-old San Antonio man who lives next to an elementary school has been arrested after investigators linked him to disturbing conversations with an AI chatbot about obtaining a gun and attacking children at the school.
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The man, identified as Nathaniel Michael Carrasco, was arrested by San Antonio police after the FBI was alerted to a series of threatening queries he reportedly made through Anthropic’s AI chatbot, Claude.
According to an affidavit, the messages were sent between August 11 and August 28 and referenced an alleged plan to attack Serna Elementary School.
Anthropic has safety systems designed to detect serious threats involving violence, child exploitation and terrorism. When the company identifies what it considers a credible threat or plan of violence, the information can be escalated to authorities.
The FBI reportedly received the alert on August 28 concerning messages linked to Carrasco.
Among the searches investigators cited was a request for images of “dead school kids bleeding.”
Carrasco allegedly became more direct in other conversations, saying he was “getting a gun as soon as I can” and planned to enter Serna Elementary and “shooting up kids.”
“I truly do mean my threats,” he allegedly wrote in another message.
The school named in the conversations is located next to Carrasco’s home, according to investigators.
Investigators initially said they were able to “tentatively identify” Carrasco as the person behind the messages.
The Southwest Texas Fusion Center later obtained emergency disclosures from T-Mobile, Charter Communications and Google, which authorities said helped positively identify him.
Carrasco was arrested by San Antonio police shortly after 11 p.m. on August 29.
He has been charged with making a terroristic threat, a felony, and is being held at the Bexar County Jail on a $250,000 bond, according to jail records.
If convicted, Carrasco could face between two and 10 years in prison.