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Pascale Davies

AI was given one month to run a shop. It lost money, made threats, and had an ‘identity crisis’

Despite concerns about artificial intelligence (AI) stealing jobs, one experiment has just shown that AI can’t even run a vending machine without making mistakes – and things turning especially strange.

Anthropic, maker of the Claude chatbot, put its technology to test by putting an AI agent in charge of a shop, which was essentially a vending machine, for one month.

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