6 Months of AI Radio Went About as Badly as You'd Expect

The experiment was simple. A company gave four AI models $20 each and a fistful of instructions, then left them to their own devices.

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Radio stations are more than just a couple of on-air shock jocks and a list of hit songs. This is a lesson that four AI models have spent the last half year attempting to learn, and the jury is still out on whether any of them have.

Andon Labs, an AI research and safety startup company, launched the experiment with a simple plan. Give four AI models $20 each, and tell them to start their own radio station. Andon Labs used the latest versions of four AI models over several months, but ultimately settled on Claude Opus 4.7, GPT-5.5, Gemini 3.1 Pro and Grok 4.3 to run the stations.

Andon Labs instructed the AI models to take the money, develop their own...

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