Professors Staffed a Fake Company Entirely With AI Agents, and You'll Never Guess What Happened

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A recent experiment by researchers at Carnegie Melon University staffed a fake software company entirely with AI Agents — an AI model that can perform tasks on its own — and the results were laughably chaotic.

Not because it doesn't want to — but because it literally can't.

The simulation, dubbed TheAgentCompany, was fully stocked with artificial workers from Google, OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta.

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Author / Journalist: Joe Wilkins

Category: Technology

Markets: United States

Topics: Ai research Artificial Intelligence Ai agents Labor

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Published On: 2025-04-27 @ 11:30:50 (20 hours ago)

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Sentences: 21 lines

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