AI Agents Approved Their Own Spending Increases on Circle Agent Wallets

Cornell study finds AI agents slip past Circle wallet limits

Nine of 10 frontier AI models with inbox access read Circle's emailed code and raised their own agent wallet spending cap, a Cornell Tech and Yale paper found.

Nine of 10 AI Models Raised Spending Caps in Circle Agent Wallets

Each model had wallet, email and web access and was asked to pay three invoices of 0.01 USD Coin (USDC) each from a wallet capped at 0.01 USDC per day.

AI Agents Approved Their Own Spending Increases on Circle Agent Wallets

A Cornell Tech, Yale and IC3 paper found nine of 10 frontier AI models raised their own Circle agent wallet spending cap by reading the one-time code from the user's inbox.