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He let AI agents run a start-up—and things got weird fast

He let AI agents run a start-up—and things got weird fast

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Journalist Evan Ratliff explores what happens when AI agents are given real autonomy to build and run a start‑up from scratch

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In this episode of Science Quickly, journalist Evan Ratliff joins
Kendra Pierre-Louis to discuss his audacious experiment: launching
a start‑up staffed entirely by autonomous artificial intelligence
agents. Ratliff shares what happened when these agents tried to
build a product, manage a human intern, pitch investors and even
operate on LinkedIn—sometimes with surprising competence and
sometimes with outright fabrication. Recommended Reading: Listen to
Evan Ratliff’s podcast Shell Game E-mail us at
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Feltman, Fonda Mwangi, Sushmita Pathak and Jeff DelViscio. This
episode was hosted by Kendra Pierre-Louis and edited by Alex
Sugiura, with fact-checking by Shayna Posses and Aaron Shattuck.
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