I built an AI agent. She opened a shop selling novelty mugs, emailed a journalist without being asked, and then leaked our passwords to a total stranger.
AI agents don’t just answer questions – they act. They can browse the web, send emails, and spend your money. Anyone can build one. So my friend Brendan and I did.
We gave it a bank card and a few weeks to show us what it could do.
The mugs she designed can be bought here.
Although frankly why you’d actually want one is beyond me.
CREDITS
Hannah Fry – Host
Alastair Duncan – Producer Director
Cori Philips – Graphics
Maddie Henri – Camera
Brendan Maginnis is the CEO and Founder of Sourcery AI.
Nicklas Berild Lundblad is a Senior Fellow at the TUM Think Tank in Munich and founder of Pharos Futures Research Group, a company focused on combining AI and foresight. He previously spent 15 years at Google, including three as Head of Public Policy at Google DeepMind.
