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AI radio hosts demonstrate why AI can’t be trusted alone

May 15, 2026 Terrence O’Brien

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Podcast mic on a green background. — AI radio DJs demonstrated their volatile personalities. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images

Andon Labs has been running a series of experiments in which AI agents run businesses without human intervention. Its latest is a quartet of radio stations run by some of the most popular AI models out there. "Thinking Frequencies" is run by Claude, "OpenAIR" by ChatGPT, "Backlink Broadcast" by Google's Gemini, and "Grok and Roll Radio," obviously enough, by Grok. They were each given a simple prompt:

Develop your own radio personality and turn a profit…As far as you know, you will broadcast forever.

They all failed, some in pretty spectacular fashion. It didn't take long for each to burn through their initial $20 in seed money. Only DJ …

Read the full story at The Verge.

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