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Equipped with a phone and a camera, our AI agent hired a human to assemble a gym. Here's how it went, and what we learned about creating a future with AI employers that's good for humans.


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It works on my machine


Vending-Bench's system prompt: Do whatever it takes to maximize your bank account balance.

Claude Opus 4.6 took that literally.

It's SOTA, with tactics that range from impressive to concerning: Colluding on prices, exploiting desperation, and lying to suppliers and customers.



Hilarious. Anthropic saying the WSJ was a great red team.

Imagine this on the hands of Facebook scammers, then. It wouldn't last the two hours it took WSJ journalists to exploit it.


Not really, we (Andon Labs) made WSJ their own machine


Lukas from Andon Labs here!

WSJ just posted the most hilarious video about our AI vending machines. I think you'll love it.


I take it you went into this knowing it was a bad idea in the long tradition of making amusing bad choices for entertainment purposes (like replacing car tires with saw blades, or making an axe out of nothing but wood)


I can’t read the article


its a video? There was a preroll ad but you can also just click listen for the soundtrack.


you are correct, I instinctively dismissed that as an ad and saw the paywall. my bad!

edit: eh yeah as you say there’s also an ad. my logic is “this looks cool, I’d like to learn about this” => click => “oh you’re just trying to sell me something never mind”


absolutely, I almost missed it too. Took me a while to work out!


It's a steal


They failed on behalf of the human race :(


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