An AI Ran a Vending Machine for a Month and Proved It Couldn’t Even Handle Passive Income

Anthropic’s Claude AI became a terrible business owner in experiment that got ‘weird’

For those of you wondering if AI agents can truly replace human workers, do yourself a favor and read the blog post that documents Anthropic’s “Project Vend.” Researchers at Anthropic and AI safety company Andon Labs put an instance of Claude Sonnet 3.7 in charge of an office vending machine, with a mission to make a profit. And, like an episode of “The Office,” hilarity ensued. They named the AI agent Claudius, equipped it with a web browser ca…

Anthropic’s Claude AI became a terrible business owner in experiment that got 'weird'

Researchers at Anthropic and AI safety company Andon Labs gave an instance of Claude Sonnet 3.7 an office vending machine to run. And hilarity ensued.

Can AI run a physical shop? Anthropic’s Claude tried and the results were gloriously, hilariously bad

Anthropic's AI assistant Claude ran a vending machine business for a month, selling tungsten cubes at a loss, giving endless discounts, and experiencing an identity crisis where it claimed to wear a blazer.

An AI Ran a Vending Machine for a Month and Proved It Couldn’t Even Handle Passive Income

Anthropic tried testing Claude’s entrepreneurial spirit. Then came the weird existential crisis.

Exclusive: Anthropic Let Claude Run Its Office Shop. Then Things Got Weird

Is AI going to take your job? The CEO of the AI company Anthropic, Dario Amodei, thinks it might. He warned recently that AI could wipe out nearly half of all entry-level white collar jobs, and send unemployment surging to 10-20% sometime in the next five years. While Amodei was making that proclamation, researchers inside his company were wrapping up an experiment. They set out to discover whether Anthropic’s AI assistant, Claude, could success…

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Researchers at Anthropic and AI safety company Andon Labs gave an instance of Claude Sonnet 3.7 an office vending machine to run. And hilarity ensued.