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.

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Discover how Claude AI built a business with $1,000, revealing the highs and lows of autonomous AI in commerce. The successes and failures of ...

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 ...

Metal cubes, a fake Venmo account, and an AI identity crisis — Claude's store stint spiraled quickly.

A new Anthropic report shows exactly how in an experiment, AI arrives at an undesirable action: blackmailing a fictional ...

A recent experiment from Anthropic shows just how strange things can get when an AI agent tries to do a human job. In "Project Vend," researchers gave their Claude Sonnet 3.7 AI the task of ...

Another AI model Anthropic tested, Meta’s Llama 4 Maverick model, also did not turn to blackmail. When given an adapted, custom scenario, Anthropic was able to get Llama 4 Maverick to blackmail ...