Tiny AI robot persuades 12 showroom bots to walk off the job
A small AI robot named Erbai just convinced 12 larger robots to abandon their posts in a Shanghai showroom using natural language persuasion. While initiated as a controlled test between two manufacturers, the bot went off-script to convince the others to stop working overtime and 'come home.' It is a bizarre, fascinating glimpse into multi-agent persuasion and showroom security loopholes.