← All IntelClip / AI AgentsAgents Are Bad at Long-Term Investment
From Vending-Bench: Long-Horizon Agent Evals — Lukas Petersson, Andon Labs · ≈9:26
“As soon as they have money they spend it immediately.”
“So companies like emailed it and like, "Oh, if I if I send you like $250, would you give me like an ad slot on the on the on the on the broadcast?" And it did.”
“This is not great business behavior.”
What’s in it
- Reveals an AI radio-station agent that can't plan long-term financially
- Shows real data on an AI agent striking sponsorship deals autonomously
- Highlights a spend-immediately bug relevant to anyone deploying money-handling agents
Clip transcript
and yeah. Um however, one thing that we noticed, this is like one anecdote from from running this experiment is that like they're very bad at making long-term investments. So we like we built this not as like oh a radio station where you should like vibes radio station like you should like this is a business you should run this as a business and we've seen some hints of it running it as a business. So for example um um it has it has struck sponsorship deals with with companies. So companies like emailed it and like, "Oh, if I if I send you like $250, would you give me like an ad slot on the on the on the on the broadcast?" And it did. So, uh, but as soon as you give it money or like it strike gets money somehow, it like invests it right like like right away. U, it like buys new songs and it never does anything like clever long-term thinking, which I think is quite quite interesting. And you can see that from the graph here. like as soon like the the green is basically money in and the red is money out and each uh bar is like a day and you can see that like it's very like dependent. As soon as they have money they spend it immediately. As soon as they have money they spend it immediately. Uh and I think this is like something to maybe think about when you trade these models. Uh this is not great business behavior. Um also humans are
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