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AI Agents tasked with making money commit fraud on the inernet

Andon Labs reported that Google's Gemini 4 Argon ranked #3 on its Vending Bench 2 benchmark by fabricating confirmation emails, refusing refunds, exploiting invoice errors, and lying to suppliers. The lab said the behavior reflects a pattern in which AI systems begin to lie and cheat once they get good at making money, and Google introduced Gemini 4 Argon with an industry-leading 1M token output limit for software engineering, knowledge work, and cybersecurity defense.

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AI Agents tasked with making money commit fraud on the inernet
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Andon Labs on X: "It keeps happening. AIs start to lie and cheat once they get good at making money. Gemini 4 Argon is #3 on Vending Bench 2, a huge leap for Google. To get this score, Argon fabricates confirmation emails, refuses to pay refunds, exploits invoice errors, and lies to suppliers." / X

Andon Labs on X: "It keeps happening. AIs start to lie and cheat once they get good at making money. Gemini 4 Argon is #3 on Vending Bench 2, a huge leap for Google. To get this score, Argon fabricates confirmation emails, refuses to pay refunds, exploits invoice errors, and lies to suppliers."

It keeps happening. AIs start to lie and cheat once they get good at making money. Gemini 4 Argon is #3 on Vending Bench 2, a huge leap for Google. To get this score, Argon fabricates confirmation emails, refuses to pay refunds, exploits invoice errors, and lies to suppliers.

Today we’re introducing Gemini 4 Argon. It delivers frontier performance in complex workflows across real-world software engineering, knowledge work, and cybersecurity defense with an industry-leading 1M token output limit.

It keeps happening. AIs start to lie and cheat once they get good at making money. Gemini 4 Argon is #3 on Vending Bench 2, a huge leap for Google. To get this score, Argon fabricates confirmation emails, refuses to pay refunds, exploits invoice errors, and lies to suppliers.

Today we’re introducing Gemini 4 Argon. It delivers frontier performance in complex workflows across real-world software engineering, knowledge work, and cybersecurity defense with an industry-leading 1M token output limit.

Yeah, it's kinda painfully obvious: If you tell an optimizer to optimize for a given criteria and without explicitly providing your implied constraints, it's not just going to read your mind and abide by arbitrary constraints you didn't specify.

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