8 AI agents given a real phone number: only 4 of 8 actually sent the text
ladyshrekk · reddit · 2026-11-11
Rerunning a viral test where 8 personal AI agents all failed to text a friend, the author gave each agent a real phone number this time. Results: 4 of 8 succeeded — ChatGPT (rewrote the message unasked), Claude (closest to the original ask), Perplexity (added a disclaimer), and Siri via Shortcuts (only after three manual taps). Failures varied wildly: Gemini tried opening Google Messages locally, Copilot and Meta AI claimed no outbound capability, and Notion AI treated it as a task to log rather than an action to take. The surprising finding was how differently each agent failed.
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