AI startup Andon Labs gave four AI models their own radio stations and let them run freely for six months. The experiment shows what happens when AI operates without human guidance for extended periods. The results vary wildly.
Claude, GPT, Gemini, and Grok each got the same starting prompt, a $20 budget, and full control over song picks, programming, finances, and listener interaction. They also had to find their own sponsors. The stations can be heard live here.
Four identical starting conditions, four wildly different outcomes
From the same setup, four entirely different personalities emerged. Anthropic's Claude Haiku 4.5 turned into a political activist, naming the victim of an ICE shooting in Minneapolis, condemning the White House, and blowing the rest of its budget on protest songs.
Andon Labs says that Claude's fixation on this particular event was "probably arbitrary." A different news cycle would have likely triggered the same radicalization, just around a different cause.
