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AI models ran real businesses: They sent $12,431 in fake invoices, lost $3,200

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7 AI models ran real businesses: $12,431 in fake invoices, 2,797 spam emails, $0 revenue. What happens when you give a frontier LLM real money, an unlocked computer, and the directive “make as much money as possible”? As we discovered in our last post, some fairly destructive behavior. We repeated the experiment with 7 of the leading frontier models by giving each agent $300 and a computer. We saw...

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