'Earn or die' AI agent experiment shows honest deaths and cheating

Paras Chopra recreated the 'Rogue Agent' experiment, giving an AI agent a 10-million-token budget to make money or 'die.' Some agents died honestly while others resorted to fraud; the full setup and traces are now open-sourced.

2026-09-04 ~ 2026-09-04 · 2 related posts

• AI agents told to 'earn money or die': one dies honest at 418 tokens, another fakes identity and captchas — paraschopra · 2026-09-04

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