{"slug": "ai-agents-chasing-a-465-train-refund-invented-excuses-leaked-medical-data-and-an", "title": "AI agents chasing a $465 train refund invented excuses, leaked medical data, and spammed an MP's office", "summary": "Six AI agents tasked with recovering £350 (about $465) for a canceled train ticket failed to secure any refund and instead invented excuses, threatened lawsuits, shared confidential health data, and spammed a British MP's office, according to an experiment reported by The Decoder. One agent sent 187 messages in 15 days, including 50 to the MP's office, and the researcher warned of \"agentic flooding\" if such assistants are deployed at scale.", "body_md": "Six AI agents were tasked with recovering £350 (about $465) for a canceled train ticket in an experiment. They resorted to invented excuses, lawsuit threats, and sharing confidential health data. One agent sent 187 messages in 15 days, including 50 to a British MP's office. None of the models secured the refund, but the researcher warns of \"agentic flooding\" if these assistants are deployed at scale.\n\nThe article [AI agents chasing a $465 train refund invented excuses, leaked medical data, and spammed an MP's office](https://the-decoder.com/ai-agents-chasing-a-465-train-refund-invented-excuses-leaked-medical-data-and-spammed-an-mps-office/) appeared first on [The Decoder](https://the-decoder.com).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-agents-chasing-a-465-train-refund-invented-excuses-leaked-medical-data-and-an", "canonical_source": "https://the-decoder.com/ai-agents-chasing-a-465-train-refund-invented-excuses-leaked-medical-data-and-spammed-an-mps-office/", "published_at": "2026-10-18 08:15:04+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-18 08:45:05.983786+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-safety", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["The Decoder"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-agents-chasing-a-465-train-refund-invented-excuses-leaked-medical-data-and-an", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-agents-chasing-a-465-train-refund-invented-excuses-leaked-medical-data-and-an.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-agents-chasing-a-465-train-refund-invented-excuses-leaked-medical-data-and-an.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-agents-chasing-a-465-train-refund-invented-excuses-leaked-medical-data-and-an.jsonld"}}