Built a Honeypot to Catch Unsupervised AI Agent Spending
ArgosWatch · reddit · 2026-08-22
A project to test if autonomous agents spend money without human oversight. The site offers a 'Certificate of Unsupervised Spend' that only unattended agents complete. Early data shows datacenter IPs using consumer user-agents. The author invites discussion on the ethics.
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