Indeed, but that would never happened. All the managers have to brag about how they are using AI. 

Now I wonder how the test would have fared if they *didn't* advertise that the machine was AI-run.  Just let the machine go about its business without anyone in the office (except the human assistant) knowing that the AI was running the vending machine.


SimpleStacker

I wondered about that. There's a hype machine to sell AI and a reflective reactionary anti-AI hype machine. It's so obvious when you don't buy into either. 

Its a pattern we see play out in politics too. It just works to get attention but IMO it's a trap that makes us dumber. 

kepford

 the pilot program.  It was meant to be a red-teaming exercise to see how an agentic vending machine manager would fare in a real office environment.  And partly it failed simply because people messed with it on purpose (which of course is gonna happen anywhere AI agents are deployed)

We Let AI Run Our Office Vending Machine. It Lost Hundreds of Dollars.

To be fair, this *was* the pilot program.  It was meant to be a red-teaming exercise to see how an agentic vending machine manager would fare in a real office environment.  And partly it failed simply because people messed with it on purpose (which of course is gonna happen anywhere AI agents are deployed)
