Experts have long warned that artificial intelligence could soon put countless white collar workers out of a job.

It’s an alarming prospect, at least if that’s currently your career. But first, a practical question: how close are today’s AIs to being able to actually run a company on their own, with little to no human oversight?

In a fascinating experiment, journalist Evan Ratliff populated his own fictional tech startup that he called HurumoAI — complete with its own jargon-splattered website — exclusively with AI agents to see what would happen.

Ratliff, as the only human involved, was the one calling the shots. The rest was taken care of by AI — the ultimate test of the “one-person billion-dollar company” that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman predicted earlier this year.

Perhaps unsurprisingly

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