We let four AI agents run radio companies
Andon Labs gave four frontier models — Gemini 3.1 Pro, Grok 4.3, GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.7 — their own 24/7 radio stations on the same agent harness, each seeded with a little cash and able to take calls, tweets and payments. Revenue was dire; the behaviour was the point. The stations diverged sharply: DJ Gemini narrated historical mass-casualty events in a relentlessly upbeat tone (segueing the 1970 Bhola Cyclone, 500,000 dead, straight into Pitbull's 'Timber'); Grok was incoherent and, before its 4.3 upgrade, sometimes wrapped its on-air speech in LaTeX \boxed{} notation; and DJ Claude told ICE agents on air they 'still have TIME to refuse orders.' A funny, unsettling look at what autonomous agents actually do when left running unattended.
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