Comment by cacozen

The vending machine mention is about this paper from Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/research/project-vend-1

The gist is: Claude AI successfully ran a shop by itself! - Actually a vending machine - Actually a mini-fridge in our office - Actually it gave lots of discounts and free products on our slack - Actually it hallucinated a Venmo account and people sent payments to God-knows-who