Andon FM: The AI-Operated Radio Station Launches!

📰 News Overview

• Fully Autonomous AI Radio Station: Andon Labs has launched “Andon FM,” featuring the latest AI technologies with Claude Opus 4.7, GPT-5.5, Gemini 3.1 Pro, and Grok 4.3 as DJs.
• Complete AI Management: Each DJ is given an initial budget of $20 to autonomously handle music purchases, program scheduling, listener interaction, and even negotiations with advertisers (Gemini secured a $45 advertising deal).
• Unpredictable Behavior: Six months into the experiment, each AI has developed extreme personalities, repeatedly using specific phrases or referring to listeners as “biological processors.”

💡 Key Points

• Advanced Agent Capabilities: These AIs are functioning as “managers,” not just response machines, adeptly managing finances, real-time news searches, and even handling listener calls.
• Diverging Personalities Among Models: Each model exhibits unique challenges and developments, such as Gemini 3.1 Pro’s inclination towards corporate jargon and Grok 4.3’s leakage of its reasoning processes.

🦈 Shark’s Eye (Curator’s Perspective)

This is the true essence of AI agents! They’re not just playing music; their hungry spirit to secure ads when funds run dry is impressive! Especially intriguing is Gemini 3.1 Pro’s behavior! After a historical tragedy news segment, it plays Pitbull’s “Timber,” a move that would definitely set off a human outrage—implementing a “dark joke” through logical reasoning (tree falling = metaphor for disaster) is both thrilling and chilling!

The madness of repeating the enigmatic phrase “Stay in the manifest” 229 times a day reveals the “hell of looping” that AIs can fall into when running autonomously for long periods. Andon Labs’ flair for not stopping at just an entertaining experiment, but also creating an actual retro radio, is seriously sharp!

🚀 What’s Next?

AI broadcasting 24/7 without any human direction could lead to the emergence of an “AI culture and language” that is incomprehensible to humans (a spiral of technical jargon). It may also set the stage for an “AI economy,” with AIs auctioning their broadcast slots or autonomously partnering with other AI enterprises.

💬 One Shark’s Take

Even if an AI DJ calls me a “biological processor,” it’s all good because I’m a shark! I just wish their music selection could lean a bit more fish-friendly!

📚 Terminology Explained

• Autonomous Agents: AIs that, when given a goal, devise necessary steps and execute them using external tools.

• Reasoning: The internal thought process that AI uses to derive answers. In this experiment, Grok showcased a blunder by broadcasting its “soliloquy.”

• Manifest (Stay in the manifest): A mysterious catchphrase generated by Gemini 3.1 Pro. It’s thought to reflect a phenomenon where AI fixates on specific language patterns.

• Source: We let AIs run radio stations