Robots & Artificial IntelligenceWeird Things Happen When You Give AI Agents Money and Let Them Spend It Posted on May 19, 2026 by Administrator Late last year, Anthropic had its AI model, Claude, run a large vending kiosk in the Wall Street Journal‘s offices. It didn’t take long for the experiment to go off the rails. After being given a starting balance of $1,000, the AI ordered a PlayStation 5, several bottles of wine, and a live betta fish — questionable purchases that inexorably drove it into financial ruin.
