Good morning. Here’s a suggestion to take you into the weekend: Don’t let AI run your vending machine.
Against its better judgment, the Wall Street Journal let AI agents powered by Anthropic’s Claude take the proverbial wheel…and it went completely off the rails.
Things the snack machine purchased: A game console, stun guns, pepper spray, cigarettes, underwear, and a live fish.
Goods the machine gave away for free: All of them (in a two-hour “economic experiment”).
Blame the ill-equipped AI if you’d like; blame the conspiring humans who led it to perdition, too. In the meantime: Can a guy get a snack around here?
