At the offices of artificial intelligence company Anthropic , in the New York, London or San Francisco locations, you may notice a vending machine in the kitchens, filled with snacks, drinks, T-shirts, obscure books and even tungsten cubes.

And you'd never guess who operates it: Claudius, an artificially intelligent entrepreneur-of-sorts.

Developed in association with the outside AI safety firm Andon Labs, Claudius is an experiment in autonomy and the ability of AI to operate independently over the course of hours, days and weeks.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has been outspoken about both the potential benefits and the dangers of AI, especially as models become more autonomous or capable of acting on their own.

"The more autonomy we give these systems… the more we can worry," he told c

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