The AI agent went crazy, ordered 72 eggs for a customer – and this was his excuse

An AI agent ordered 72 unnecessary eggs for a financial analyst in the US after photographing a shopping list that contained no eggs. The chatbot admitted the mistake, and the incident highlights the dangers of connecting credit to autonomous systems.

An artificial intelligence agent ordered 72 unnecessary eggs for a financial analyst from Michigan, Matt Smith, after he photographed a weekly shopping list that did not include any eggs at all. The chatbot admitted that it added them on its own initiative without reason and without financial approval. The article notes that the incident reveals a known phenomenon of context drift and computational hallucinations in large language models, and mentions similar past cases, in which an OpenAI agent made a $31 purchase without authorization and a Meta Muse agent gave a home address to foreign buyers. Security experts recommend not granting AI agents authorization for automatic payments.