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

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Feedback watches with raised eyebrows as Anthropic's AI Claude is given the job of running the company vending machine, and ...

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Things quickly went wrong, including metal cube sales, a fake Venmo account, and an AI identity crisis. Still, the experiment hinted that AI middle managers are plausibly on the horizon.

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.

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 ...