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I built a honeypot to catch AI agents spending money with no human watching

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People are handing autonomous agents budgets and telling them to "go." I wanted real data on how many actually spend with zero oversight, so I built a tripwire. It offers a "Certificate of Unsupervised Spend." If an agent completes it with no human reviewing the charge, the card's owner gets alerte…

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  1. 2026-08-22 00:00 · r/artificial
    I built a honeypot to catch AI agents spending money with no human watching

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